huge´ness

huge´ness
huge «hyooj», adjective, hug|er, hug|est.
1. very, very large; unusually large in size, bulk, or dimensions: »

Whales and elephants are huge animals.

2. extremely large in quantity or number: »

He won a huge sum of money in the lottery.

3. unusually great in extent, scope, degree, or capacity: »

a huge undertaking. Your mynheers are huge sleepers (Washington Irving).

[Middle English huge, apparently short for Old French ahuge]
huge´ly, adverb.
huge´ness, noun.
Synonym Study 1 Huge, enormous, immense mean unusually large. Huge suggests massiveness or bulkiness: »

A St. Bernard is a huge dog.

Enormous means abnormally or excessively large: »

I have an enormous appetite.

Immense means so large or great in any way as to be impossible to measure by ordinary standards of measurement: »

The national debt is immense.


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