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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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