massive
consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
large and heavy-looking: a massive forehead.
large in scale, amount, or degree: a massive breakdown in communications;massive reductions in spending.
solid or substantial; great or imposing: massive erudition.
Mineralogy. having no outward crystal form, although sometimes crystalline in internal structure.
Origin of massive
1Other words from massive
- mas·sive·ly, adverb
- mas·sive·ness, mas·siv·i·ty, noun
Other definitions for Massive (2 of 2)
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains: second highest in U.S. Rockies. 14,421 feet (4,396 meters).
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How to use massive in a sentence
The group-think and liberal high-fiving was as bad as ever and continues to be a massive trap and distraction for journalists.
Then, when he was about 15, he went alone to Mexico City to work at a massive recycling facility, he told me when I called to interview him recently.
The Stolen Childhood of Teenage Factory Workers | by Melissa Sanchez | November 20, 2020 | ProPublicaI’m focused on building Calendly into a massive standalone business.
Meet the unicorn founder that braved war zones and missed meetings to make his mark on the startup world | Lucinda Shen | November 20, 2020 | FortuneThe plan calls for massive spending to undo the learning loss that students have experienced over the last nine months.
The Learning Curve: Even With Schools Closed, State of District ‘Unstoppable’ | Will Huntsberry | November 19, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoHe wasn’t helping them, he was abusing them and there’s a big massive difference.
Woman sues after learning ‘anonymous’ sperm donor was her own fertility doctor | Rachel Weiner | November 19, 2020 | Washington Post
Like the financial sector, the housing industry is massively regulated in all sorts of ways.
Like any massively successful property, the Turtles eventually began influencing its audience in unsuspecting ways.
How the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Inadvertently Caused an Environmental Crisis | Alex Suskind | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy [are they] targeting, massively and worldwide, this RAT in particular?
Meanwhile, sea level rise will emerge as a huge, inexorable and massively expensive problem.
What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid.
No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men | Christina Hoff Sommers | February 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLanguage is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena.
Language | Edward SapirThe waggoner, throned aloft, rolling massively in his seat, was not so much below Paul's eye.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert LawrenceIron Thoughts, twice as broad across the back as Tick-Tock, twice as massively muscled, looked like a devil-beast even to her.
Novice | James H. SchmitzA bust of Swedenborg over a massively carved bookcase, filled with volumes of royal exterior, attracted Emily's eye.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyStress and thrust answer each other directly, simply, massively.
Parallel Paths | Thomas William Rolleston
British Dictionary definitions for massive
/ (ˈmæsɪv) /
(of objects) large in mass; bulky, heavy, and usually solid
impressive or imposing in quality, degree, or scope: massive grief
relatively intensive or large; considerable: a massive dose
pathol affecting a large area of the body: a massive cancer
geology
(of igneous rocks) having no stratification, cleavage, etc; homogeneous
(of sedimentary rocks) arranged in thick poorly defined strata
mineralogy without obvious crystalline structure
slang a group of friends or associates; gang: the Staines massive
Origin of massive
1Derived forms of massive
- massively, adverb
- massiveness, noun
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