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See more synonyms for massive on Thesaurus.com 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. Show More
Origin of massive 1375–1425; late Middle English (see
mass ,
-ive ); replacing
Middle English massif <
Middle French Related forms mas·sive·ly , adverb mas·sive·ness , mas·siv·i·ty , noun Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for massively densely ,
thickly ,
massively ,
dully ,
profoundly ,
dejectedly ,
gloomily ,
ponderously ,
sluggishly ,
tediously ,
wearily Examples from the Web for massively Contemporary Examples of massively 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.
Why [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.
Historical Examples of massively "Come as you are," said the Tamburini, who massively stood up.
He could see her cheek, the cheek that ran too massively into her neck.
Stress and thrust answer each other directly, simply, massively .
The city is massively built, but it has a battered look, and no wonder.
To her eyes the tree stood as massively firm as she had ever seen it.
British Dictionary definitions for massively (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 Show More
slang a group of friends or associates; gang the Staines massive Show More
Derived Forms massively , adverb massiveness , noun Word Origin for massive C15: from French massif, from masse mass
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Word Origin and History for massively adj. c.1400, from Middle French massif "bulky, solid," from Old French masse "lump" (see mass (n.1)). Related: Massively ; massiveness . U.S. Cold War strategy of massive retaliation was introduced by J.F. Dulles in early 1954.
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Large in comparison with the usual amount. Affecting a large area of bodily tissue; widespread and severe. Show More
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