Another word for large
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Adjective
Notably above average in amount, size, or scope
- Orderly and clean in appearance:
- Given to keeping things clean and in order:
- Adequate; satisfactory:
- Of considerable size; fairly large.
- Large in scope or extent.
- Drawn or made large to show detail.
- Possessing good health:
- Conducive to good health; healthful:
- Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind:
- Very large in size, extent, or intensity:
- Of a larger size than other, similar forms:
- Large in quantity or number:
- Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor:
- Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing:
- Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable:
- Large in extent, range, or amount.
- Of or relating to the cultivation of vast areas of land with a minimum of labor or expense.
- Large in amount, extent, or degree:
- Worthy of consideration; significant:
- A considerable amount, extent, or degree.
- Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.
- Having great strength or force:
- Of great significance; momentous:
See also:Covering a wide scope
See also:Having great significance
- Considerable in importance, value, degree, amount, or extent:
- Solidly built; strong:
- Ample; sustaining:
- Having or expressing a meaning:
- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
- Of, resembling, or serving as a monument.
- Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring.
- Of outstanding significance:
- Having meaning, function, or purpose:
- Showing or conveying meaning, especially without words:
- The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.
- Something, such as an idea or information, that is to be refined and made or incorporated into a finished effort:
- Tools or apparatus for the performance of a given task:
- Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant:
- Having high social rank or influence; prominent:
- Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position or authority; authoritative:
- Having importance in or influence on history.
- Historical.
- Large in amount, extent, or degree:
- Worthy of consideration; significant:
- A considerable amount, extent, or degree.
- Following as an effect, result, or conclusion; consequent.
- Having important consequences; significant:
- Important; influential:
- Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.
- Having great strength or force:
- Of great significance; momentous:
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Another word for large
Modifier
Of great size
- Very impressive or imposing:
- Extremely large; enormous:
- Very large; huge:
- Very fine; impressive:
- Used as an intensive:
- that thunders
- very large; thumping; whopping
- Outstanding in size, degree, or quality:
- Exceptionally large:
- Used as an intensive:
- A usually metal or rubber bar attached to either end of a motor vehicle, such as a truck or car, to absorb impact in a collision.
- A protective device for absorbing shocks or impeding contact.
- Possessing good health:
- Conducive to good health; healthful:
- Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind:
- Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.
- Loud and resonant.
- Present participle of boom.
- An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.
- A superintendent in an apartment or office building.
- A supernumerary.
- An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.
- A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.
- An organism that has structural defects or deformities.
- Of enormous size or magnitude; huge.
- Of or relating to an elephant.
- Enormous in size or strength:
- Ponderously clumsy.
- An unusual size, especially a very large size.
- A garment of unusual size.
- Unusually large, weighty, or extensive.
- Extra large in size:
- Measuring about 60 inches by 80 inches (1.5 meters by 2.0 meters). Used of a bed.
- Being of a size that will fit such a bed:
- Larger or longer than the usual or standard size:
- Very large in scope or intensity:
- Measuring about 76 inches by 80 inches (1.9 meters by 2.0 meters). Used of a bed.
- Rashly or wastefully extravagant:
- Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse:
- One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
- Of or relating to astronomy.
- Of enormous magnitude; immense:
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
- Exceeding normal or appropriate bounds; inordinate:
- An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.
- A literary or dramatic composition that resembles an extended narrative poem celebrating heroic feats.
- A series of events considered appropriate to an epic:
- Of, relating to, or resembling the heroes of literature, legend, or myth.
- Having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero; courageous:
- Impressive in size or scope; grand:
- Relating to or suggestive of Antaeus.
- Of immense size, extent, or quantity.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- Having great weight:
- Slow and labored because of great bulk or weight:
- Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight:
- hard to handle or deal with as because of size, weight, or complexity; burdensome; unwieldy; clumsy
- overspread with foliage
- grown excessively or beyond normal size
- Having great volume or size:
- Filling or capable of filling a large volume or many volumes:
- Speaking or writing in great amounts or at great length:
- simple past tense and past participle of enlarge
- So great in scope, degree, or importance as to amaze:
- Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous:
- Remarkable; outstanding:
- Of, resembling, or serving as a monument.
- Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring.
- Of outstanding significance:
- Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous:
- Extraordinary; marvelous:
- Portentous; ominous.
- Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous:
- Very great in scope or importance:
- Remarkable; outstanding:
- Immense; enormous.
- An unusually large person, animal, or thing.
- Unusually large:
- A person or thing of great size.
- A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance:
- One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
- Relating to or suggestive of a Cyclops:
- Very big; huge:
- Of or constituting a primitive style of masonry characterized by the use of massive stones of irregular shape and size.
- Very great in size, extent, or amount.
- Very great in scope or import:
- Very wicked; heinous.
- Spacious; roomy:
- Suitable; handy.
- Splendid in appearance; grand:
- Grand or noble in thought or accomplishment; exalted:
- Outstanding of its kind; excellent:
- Having or showing great power, skill, strength, or force:
- Imposing or awesome in size, degree, or extent:
- To a great degree; extremely. Used as an intensive:
- Of imposing height.
- Elevated in character; exalted.
- Affecting grandness; pompous.
- Having greater than ordinary height:
- Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty:
- Having a specified height:
- Of imposing height.
- Outstanding; preeminent:
- Very great or intense:
- Shockingly hideous or frightful in appearance.
- Of or resembling a fabulous monster.
- Exceptionally large; enormous:
- Of or relating to the Titans.
- Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal:
- Of enormous scope, power, or influence:
- Of unusual size, power, or difficulty.
- Of or relating to Hercules.
- Resembling Hercules.
- Having excessive body weight caused by the accumulation of fat; extremely fat.
- Having an abundance or excess of flesh or fat.
- Much bigger than desired:
- Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.
- Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended:
- Overblown; bombastic:
- The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.
- Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
- A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
- Having a stout or compact build.
- Hoarse or rough in quality:
- Resembling a husk.
- Containing husks.
- Heavy, strong, and muscular; husky.
- Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
- Strong in body; sturdy:
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
- Of considerable weight; heavy.
- Big and strong; stout or muscular.
- Strong and sturdy:
- Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion:
- Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting:
- To give or bestow in abundance; shower:
- So large in scope or content as to include much:
- Marked by or showing extensive understanding:
- An examination or series of examinations covering the entire field of major study, given to a student in the final year of undergraduate or graduate study.
- Favoring reform, open to new ideas, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; not bound by traditional thinking; broad-minded.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
- Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
- Quite large; considerable:
- Of pleasing appearance; comely:
- Occurring in abundance:
- Having an abundance of something; abounding:
- Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity:
- Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose:
- Plump or bulky:
- Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population.
- Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply:
- Large in quantity; abundant:
- Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy:
- Existing in great quantity or ample supply.
- Providing or producing an abundance:
- Being without boundaries or limits; unlimited:
- Large in extent, range, or amount.
- Of or relating to the cultivation of vast areas of land with a minimum of labor or expense.
- Impossible to measure; limitless.
- Having many mountains.
- Resembling a mountain in size; huge:
- Any of various extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus of the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, having ridged molars and often, as in the woolly mammoth, long tusks and hair.
- Something that is of great size.
- Of enormous size, extent, or amount; huge.
- Exceedingly large in size, extent, or amount, especially for its kind:
- Very great in scope or importance:
- Of great size, extent, or amount; immense.
- Of great scope or consequence; monumental:
- Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy:
- Wide in extent from side to side:
- Large in expanse; spacious:
- Having a certain width from side to side:
- Of considerable size; fairly large.
- Having considerable bulk; massive.
- Of large size for its weight:
- Clumsy to manage; unwieldy.
- Having enough or abundant space or room; large in area or extent:
- Large in range or scope:
- Very great in size, extent, or amount:
- Of great scope or consequence:
- Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid:
- Having relatively high mass:
- Large or imposing, as in quantity, scope, degree, intensity, or scale:
- Very great in size, extent, or quantity.
- Very great in scope or import:
- An immense space.
- Considerable in importance, value, degree, amount, or extent:
- Solidly built; strong:
- Ample; sustaining:
- Large in amount, extent, or degree:
- Worthy of consideration; significant:
- A considerable amount, extent, or degree.
- Large and impressive in size or extent:
- Sweeping in ambition or conception:
- Very pleasing; wonderful; splendid:
- Having a specified extent from side to side:
- Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad:
- Having great extent or range; including much or many:
- Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- Contributing in a major way to success; very important:
- Very large in size, extent, or intensity:
- Of a larger size than other, similar forms:
- Large in quantity or number:
- Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.
- Having great strength or force:
- Of great significance; momentous:
Involving great plans
- Large in amount, extent, or degree:
- Worthy of consideration; significant:
- A considerable amount, extent, or degree.
- Stretched or pulled out:
- Continued for a long period of time; protracted:
- Enlarged or broad in meaning, scope, or influence:
- Large in extent, range, or amount.
- Of or relating to the cultivation of vast areas of land with a minimum of labor or expense.
Magnanimous
- noble and generous in caring for others
- Possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development.
- Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, or honor:
- Proceeding from or indicative of such a character; showing magnanimity:
- Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- Affording unobstructed passage or view:
- Having no protecting or concealing cover:
Synonym Study
- Large , big , and great are often interchangeable in meaning of more than usual size, extent, etc. a large, big, or great oak, but large is typically used with reference to dimensions or amount a large studio, a large sum, big, to bulk, weight, or extent a big baby, big business, and great, which is less often used of physical things, to size or extent that is impressive, imposing, surprising, etc. a great river, a great success
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