dictionary definitions for "huge"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  huge
      adj 1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
             extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge
             country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher
             education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct
             winds like an immense snake along the base of the
             mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or
             immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space";
             "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call
             civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast,
             Brobdingnagian]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Huge \Huge\, a. [Compar. Huger; superl. Hugest.] [OE. huge,
     hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
     Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of
     material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a
     huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge
     confusion." --Chapman. "A huge filly." --Jer. Taylor. --
     Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.   --Shak.
  
     Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
          [1913 Webster]


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