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What is a basic definition of big?
Big describes something that is large in height, weight, size, or amount. Big can also describe something that is significant or, informally, something that is popular. Big has many other senses as an adjective and a few as an adverb and a noun.
Big can describe things that are tall, wide, massive, or plentiful. It’s a synonym of words such as large, great, and huge, describing something as being notably high in number or scale in some way.
- Real-life examples: The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Jupiter is a big planet. You would need a big box to hold 300 books. Skyscrapers are big buildings.
- Used in a sentence: The restaurant brought out a big table to seat all 30 of us.
Big also describes something that is very important, worrisome, alarming, influential, or similarly worthy of notice.
- Real-life examples: Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is a big mistake. A comet hitting Earth would be a big issue. The discovery of life on Mars would be big news.
- Used in a sentence: The mold in our house turned into a big problem when we found out it was toxic.
Big is used informally to mean that something is popular or widely known.
- Real-life examples: Disco was big in the 1970s. The internet started to become big in the 1990s when computers became affordable and connection speeds improved.
- Used in a sentence: The actor was big 10 years ago but now nobody knows who he is.
Where does big come from?
The first records of big come from around 1250. It comes from the Middle English big(ge), but any earlier origin is unknown.
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What are some other forms related to big?
What are some synonyms for big?
What are some words that share a root or word element with big?
What are some words that often get used in discussing big?
How is big used in real life?
Big is a very common word that is most often used to describe something as being large in some way.
Big spider in my room so I've run away to another room 😂
— Shari ✨💙 (@Sharichantel) November 30, 2020
Potentially 182 days til hairdressers are open .. I’m in big trouble 👧🏻😂👧🏻
— Joshua Windass (@WindassJnr) April 24, 2020
Someone needs to bring the harmonica back to the spot light. It was big in the 90s and then just died in music. Someone bring it back!
— Caleb Combs (@Krouton_5) December 4, 2019
Try using big!
Is big used correctly in the following sentence?
The dog was so big that my friend thought it was a small horse.
MORE ABOUT BIG
What is a basic definition of big?
Big describes something that is large in height, weight, size, or amount. Big can also describe something that is significant or, informally, something that is popular. Big has many other senses as an adjective and a few as an adverb and a noun.
Big can describe things that are tall, wide, massive, or plentiful. It’s a synonym of words such as large, great, and huge, describing something as being notably high in number or scale in some way.
- Real-life examples: The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Jupiter is a big planet. You would need a big box to hold 300 books. Skyscrapers are big buildings.
- Used in a sentence: The restaurant brought out a big table to seat all 30 of us.
Big also describes something that is very important, worrisome, alarming, influential, or similarly worthy of notice.
- Real-life examples: Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is a big mistake. A comet hitting Earth would be a big issue. The discovery of life on Mars would be big news.
- Used in a sentence: The mold in our house turned into a big problem when we found out it was toxic.
Big is used informally to mean that something is popular or widely known.
- Real-life examples: Disco was big in the 1970s. The internet started to become big in the 1990s when computers became affordable and connection speeds improved.
- Used in a sentence: The actor was big 10 years ago but now nobody knows who he is.
Where does big come from?
The first records of big come from around 1250. It comes from the Middle English big(ge), but any earlier origin is unknown.
Did you know … ?
What are some other forms related to big?
What are some synonyms for big?
What are some words that share a root or word element with big?
What are some words that often get used in discussing big?
How is big used in real life?
Big is a very common word that is most often used to describe something as being large in some way.
Big spider in my room so I've run away to another room 😂
— Shari ✨💙 (@Sharichantel) November 30, 2020
Potentially 182 days til hairdressers are open .. I’m in big trouble 👧🏻😂👧🏻
— Joshua Windass (@WindassJnr) April 24, 2020
Someone needs to bring the harmonica back to the spot light. It was big in the 90s and then just died in music. Someone bring it back!
— Caleb Combs (@Krouton_5) December 4, 2019
Try using big!
Is big used correctly in the following sentence?
The dog was so big that my friend thought it was a small horse.
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Something that is big is large in size, height, width, or amount. How is big different from great and large? Find out on Thesaurus.com.