Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity. See Synonyms at enormous.
- adj. Of exceedingly great scope or nature: the huge influence of the Hellenic world.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having great bulk; very large; immense; enormous of its kind: as, a huge mountain; a huge ox; a huge beetle.
- Very great in any respect; of exceptionally great capacity, extent, degree, etc.; inordinate: as, a huge difference.
- Synonyms Vast, bulky, immense, gigantic, colossal, prodigious. See bulky.
- n. Great bulk.
- Hugely.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very large.
- adj. slang Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Etymologies
- From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge ("high, lofty, great, large, huge"), from a hoge ("at height"), from a ("at, to") + hoge ("a hill, height"), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr ("hill"), both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *koukos (“hill, mound”). Akin to Old High German houg ("mound") (whence German Hügel ("hill")), Icelandic haugr ("mound"), Lithuanian kaukaras ("hill"), Old High German hōh ("high") (whence German hoch), Old English hēah ("high"). More at high. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French ahuge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Second, adult giraffes are so huge they are not just tall, they are *huge*, I don’t think they get serious predation except maybe as babies.”
“She was going to make my name huge in the art world.”
“The United Nations on Tuesday described what it called "huge suffering" among civilians from air strikes in Southern Kordofan on the border with South Sudan, by northern forces directed from Khartoum.”
“Let's say 'emotional' covers kind of both of them, but I could throw a bunch of different ones: 'Uplifting', 'revealing' and I will throw in the word 'huge' in there as well.”
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“And citing what it called huge interest on its website, the company is boosting production the following year to 45,000.”
“It was the second time she had used the word huge.”
“The idea of linking, connecting, plugging in, and forming a link stem from some of the diverse meanings of the Sanskrit word yoga, which comes from the root word yuj, which is pronounced like the English word huge.”
“Accepting the prize in the nation's capital, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader chastised America for not fully addressing what he calls a huge gap between the rich and the poor.”
“It placed employment at the top of a list of what it called huge challenges facing South Africa.”
“The party is citing what they call huge problems in Denver this morning in voting.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘huge’.
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abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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Words in which "u" is pronounced "yu"
cute, uniform, puny, municipal, butte, fume, perfume, puke, cucumber, huge, demure, cube and 95 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Words for Big
Words, terms and phrases that denote big, bigness, or making something bigger.
enlarge, giant, giantess, biggify, enormous, enhance, augment, whopper, swell, swollen, inflated, gigantic and 54 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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EROTICA
thrust, cock, sweat, erotic, porn, penetrate, lust, force, rape, hard, cum, climax and 73 more...
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February 29th!
Leap day words
reliable, totality, notoriously, relevant, huge, photos, lack, synced, threaten, role, tethered, gunning and 3 more...
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TheWordMaster's Words
book, shelf, hurray, party, computer, live, internet, virtual, cups, lips, kiss, hug and 26 more...
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justice's Words
juicy, nostalgia, vibration, cramp, duplicate, mauve, filament, pink, longing, utopia, vulva, punctum and 13 more...
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read&vocab
porridge, huge, gleam, battered, declared, thump, exchange, whisper, hang, bent, precious, polish and 12 more...
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TT2 Lesson 22
scene, Bahamas, calm, still, stand stiill, star, shine, amazingly, taste, a taste of, port of call, unforgettable and 49 more...
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big
big, huge, vast, large, colossus, titanic, gigantic, whopping, great, massive, immense, historic and 9 more...
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