enormous
Americanadjective
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greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense.
an enormous fortune.
- Synonyms:
- stupendous, prodigious, mammoth, gigantic, colossal, vast
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outrageous or atrocious.
enormous wickedness; enormous crimes.
adjective
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unusually large in size, extent, or degree; immense; vast
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archaic extremely wicked; heinous
Related Words
See huge.
Other Word Forms
- enormously adverb
- enormousness noun
Etymology
Origin of enormous
Example Sentences
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Fast radio bursts release enormous amounts of energy in a very short time, even though they last only milliseconds.
From Science Daily
“What’s become clear is that the U.S. has enormous leverage over that relationship.”
It came a few months after the Sun newspaper had outed Sir Simon as gay, which "generated enormous interest in Sir Simon from numerous other newspapers".
From BBC
Early on, I had enormous self-doubt, but I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing.
My foster parents think I was starving in Cuba, and so they like to take me to this restaurant called Wolfie’s, where we eat enormous pastrami sandwiches and bowls of matzoh ball soup.
From Literature
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