huge
Americanadjective
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huger,
comparative
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hugest
superlative
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extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent.
a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- Antonyms:
- diminutive, tiny, small
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of unbounded extent, scope, or character; limitless.
the huge genius of Mozart.
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Slang. very important, successful, popular, etc..
The show is huge in Britain.
adjective
Pronunciation
See human.
Synonym Usage
Huge, enormous, immense, tremendous imply great magnitude. Huge implies massiveness, bulkiness, or even shapelessness: a huge mass of rock; a huge collection of antiques. Enormous, literally out of the norm, applies to what exceeds in extent, magnitude, or degree, a norm or standard: an enormous iceberg. Tremendous, in informal use, applies to anything so huge as to be astonishing or to inspire awe: a tremendous amount of equipment. Immense, literally not measurable, is particularly applicable to what is exceedingly great, without reference to a standard: immense buildings. All are used figuratively: a huge success; enormous curiosity; tremendous effort; immense joy.
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Etymology
Origin of huge
First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English huge, hoge from Old French ahuge, ahoge “enormous,” equivalent to a- a- 5 + hoge “height” from Germanic; compare Old Norse haugr “hill” ( see high)
Explanation
Use the adjective huge to describe something that’s really, really big. When your friend throws a huge birthday party and invites everyone she knows, you can finally talk to that cute neighbor you have a huge crush on. Huge is a relative word — there’s no specific degree or size something has to reach before you can say it’s huge. You can eat a huge piece of cake, or go see huge elephants in the zoo. Cake and elephants are both concrete things, but huge can also describe things that aren’t actual objects. For example, you can make a huge difference by volunteering at an animal shelter.
Example Sentences
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Paramount agreed to pay Warner shareholders a huge premium to acquire the company, which it plans to finance with tens of billions in debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“By scaling up proven and efficient pollution-cutting programs, states can deliver savings for families and businesses, while making a huge impact on our national emissions. More states should follow their lead.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The stakes are less big but still huge for Amazon, which reported nearly $70 billion in ad revenue last year.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tools like agentic AI have a huge power demand, Campbell said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
We inched along a corridor into a huge reception room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But "it could have been huger" if not for tech industry interference.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
But the huger dimensions work against the gains in fuel efficiency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
I have never heard a huger howl of laughter than when seeing this at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in the mid eighties.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2020
In an even huger coincidence, Reuters now reports that the EPA has given CVR Energy an exemption from having to buy the credits:
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2018
Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Yes, and one of his hugest departures was making Robert Downey Jr. play four characters – five by the end.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Well, maybe not the hugest, but I’m pretty pretty up there in terms of Seattle Kraken fan.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
“Her U.S. mint recognition, that was one of the hugest, I mean, literally one of the hugest achievements of any Hawaiian, period,” Ms. Kanaka‘ole’s grandson Kuha‘o Zane said.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
She also spoke to Davis about motherhood, beauty and why she isn’t the hugest fan of press tours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
He waited until the line jerked and twitched in his hand, and then he hauled up the line: two monstrous whales hung from it, the hugest whales that Thor had ever seen.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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