huge
Americanadjective
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huger,
comparative
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hugest
superlative
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extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent.
a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- Antonyms:
- diminutive, tiny, small
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of unbounded extent, scope, or character; limitless.
the huge genius of Mozart.
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Slang. very important, successful, popular, etc..
The show is huge in Britain.
adjective
Pronunciation
See human.
Synonym Usage
Huge, enormous, immense, tremendous imply great magnitude. Huge implies massiveness, bulkiness, or even shapelessness: a huge mass of rock; a huge collection of antiques. Enormous, literally out of the norm, applies to what exceeds in extent, magnitude, or degree, a norm or standard: an enormous iceberg. Tremendous, in informal use, applies to anything so huge as to be astonishing or to inspire awe: a tremendous amount of equipment. Immense, literally not measurable, is particularly applicable to what is exceedingly great, without reference to a standard: immense buildings. All are used figuratively: a huge success; enormous curiosity; tremendous effort; immense joy.
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Etymology
Origin of huge
First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English huge, hoge from Old French ahuge, ahoge “enormous,” equivalent to a- a- 5 + hoge “height” from Germanic; compare Old Norse haugr “hill” ( see high)
Explanation
Use the adjective huge to describe something that’s really, really big. When your friend throws a huge birthday party and invites everyone she knows, you can finally talk to that cute neighbor you have a huge crush on. Huge is a relative word — there’s no specific degree or size something has to reach before you can say it’s huge. You can eat a huge piece of cake, or go see huge elephants in the zoo. Cake and elephants are both concrete things, but huge can also describe things that aren’t actual objects. For example, you can make a huge difference by volunteering at an animal shelter.
Example Sentences
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He added: "We don't want to make the same mistake with the huge potential that Wales has in this new energy revolution with renewable energy."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“You can just jump in and have a huge impact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“That’s a huge compass for me, or a guiding measurement — being where my feet are,” said McDaniel, Yale-educated offensive coordinator of the Chargers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
"Ice really has a huge impact on the taste of a cocktail," Miyachi told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Then they were all running along past her, the truck was bouncing, being bumped by this huge herd, this family of bison, this clan.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I’m just going to get bigger and fatter and huger and more menacing if you try and suppress me!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
But "it could have been huger" if not for tech industry interference.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
“But he talked about one bigger and huger than hers. We take him at his word that he’s going to pursue it. We’ll be supportive in any way we can.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2016
The voice was huge and the sentiment huger, staggeringly so.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2015
And Fenris Wolf grew huger and hungrier with each day that passed.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
“I don’t think we’ll see another justice who is so ideologically unpredictable and who votes against his party of appointment in some of the hugest cases in our lifetimes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
His heart is one of the hugest hearts I've ever seen in my life.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
“Her U.S. mint recognition, that was one of the hugest, I mean, literally one of the hugest achievements of any Hawaiian, period,” Ms. Kanaka‘ole’s grandson Kuha‘o Zane said.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
“Which, if you have met James, is not the hugest loss,” Jennings says, as the audience cracks up at the unexpected burn from the mild-mannered trivia king.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
He waited until the line jerked and twitched in his hand, and then he hauled up the line: two monstrous whales hung from it, the hugest whales that Thor had ever seen.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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