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1. [s] conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he''s very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
2. [s] given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday''s child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and
3. [s] generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that''s very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
4. [s] marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
5. [s] significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
6. [a] above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group o
7. [s] loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
8. [s] (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"
9. [s] very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
10. [s] feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
11. [s] exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
12. [s] of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"
13. [r] in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
14. [r] in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
15. [r] on a grand scale; "think big"
16. [r] extremely well; "his performance went over big"
similar words
1. [a] conspicuous
2. [a] obvious
3. [a] generous
4. [a] generous
5. [a] heavy
6. [a] important
7. [a] of_import
8. [s] ample
9. [s] sizable
10. [s] sizeable
11. [s] astronomic
12. [s] astronomical
13. [s] galactic
14. [s] bigger
15. [s] larger
16. [s] biggest
17. [s] greatest
18. [s] largest
19. [s] biggish
20. [s] largish
21. [s] blown-up
22. [s] enlarged
23. [s] bouffant
24. [s] puffy
25. [s] broad
26. [s] spacious
27. [s] wide
28. [s] bulky
29. [s] capacious
30. [s] colossal
31. [s] prodigious
32. [s] stupendous
33. [s] deep
34. [s] double
35. [s] enormous
36. [s] tremendous
37. [s] cosmic
38. [s] elephantine
39. [s] gargantuan
40. [s] giant
41. [s] jumbo
42. [s] epic
43. [s] heroic
44. [s] larger-than-life
45. [s] extensive
46. [s] extended
47. [s] gigantic
48. [s] mammoth
49. [s] great
50. [s] huge
51. [s] immense
52. [s] vast
53. [s] Brobdingnagian
54. [s] hulking
55. [s] hulky
56. [s] humongous
57. [s] banging
58. [s] thumping
59. [s] whopping
60. [s] walloping
61. [s] king-size
62. [s] king-sized
63. [s] large-scale
64. [s] large-scale
65. [s] life-size
66. [s] lifesize
67. [s] life-sized
68. [s] full-size
69. [s] macro
70. [s] man-sized
71. [s] massive
72. [s] monolithic
73. [s] monumental
74. [s] massive
75. [s] monstrous
76. [s] mountainous
77. [s] outsize
78. [s] outsized
79. [s] oversize
80. [s] oversized
81. [s] overlarge
82. [s] too_large
83. [s] plumping
84. [s] queen-size
85. [s] queen-sized
86. [s] rangy
87. [s] super
88. [s] titanic
89. [s] volumed
90. [s] voluminous
91. [s] whacking
92. [s] wide-ranging
93. [a] loud
94. [a] mature
95. [a] intense
96. [a] proud
97. [a] significant
98. [a] important
opposite words
1. [a] small
2. [a] little
3. [r] small
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