biggish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of biggish
Example Sentences
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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
You definitely shouldn't panic but there is a biggish asteroid about to pass by Earth in the coming hours.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023
Midsized and biggish bio-pharma firms, for instance, have done far better than the very largest ones.
From Economist • Mar. 22, 2018
That sounds like a lot, because it’s a biggish round number, and casual news consumers have been programmed to interpret any drop in the Dow of more than 500 points as cataclysmic.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2018
“It’s a biggish thing,” she said, “and painful-like. ”
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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