massive

[ mas-iv ]

/ ˈmæs ɪv /

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adjective

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.

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Origin of massive

1375–1425; late Middle English (see mass, -ive); replacing Middle English massif<Middle French

OTHER WORDS FROM massive

mas·sive·ly, adverbmas·sive·ness, mas·siv·i·ty, noun

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Massive

[ mas-iv ]

/ ˈmæs ɪv /

noun

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.
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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.
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I’m focused on building Calendly into a massive standalone business.
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The plan calls for massive spending to undo the learning loss that students have experienced over the last nine months.
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He wasn’t helping them, he was abusing them and there’s a big massive difference.
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Like the financial sector, the housing industry is massively regulated in all sorts of ways.
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Like any massively successful property, the Turtles eventually began influencing its audience in unsuspecting ways.
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Why [are they] targeting, massively and worldwide, this RAT in particular?
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Meanwhile, sea level rise will emerge as a huge, inexorable and massively expensive problem.
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What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid.
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Language is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena.
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The waggoner, throned aloft, rolling massively in his seat, was not so much below Paul's eye.
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Iron Thoughts, twice as broad across the back as Tick-Tock, twice as massively muscled, looked like a devil-beast even to her.
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A bust of Swedenborg over a massively carved bookcase, filled with volumes of royal exterior, attracted Emily's eye.
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Stress and thrust answer each other directly, simply, massively.
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British Dictionary definitions for massive

massive

/ (ˈmæsɪv) /

adjective

(of objects) large in mass; bulky, heavy, and usually solid

impressive or imposing in quality, degree, or scopemassive grief

relatively intensive or large; considerablea massive dose

pathol affecting a large area of the bodya 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

noun

slang a group of friends or associates; gangthe Staines massive

Derived forms of massive

massively, adverbmassiveness, noun

Word Origin for massive

C15: from French massif, from masse mass

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