ENORMOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enormous mean? 

• ENORMOUS (adjective)
  The adjective ENORMOUS has 1 sense:

1. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree

  Familiarity information: ENORMOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENORMOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree

Synonyms:

enormous; tremendous

Context example:

a plane took off with a tremendous noise

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

enormousness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)

 Context examples 

Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

Such a compact device, though, could have enormous health benefits.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

New observations suggests that the largest of these lakes, Loki Patera, produces enormous waves that repeatedly flow around the molten surface.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He opened up his heart to Martin, showed with what keenness and with what enormous planning he had made the store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From below came the fatal roaring where the wild current went wilder and was rent in shreds and spray by the rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mr. Peggotty, to relieve it, took two prodigious lobsters, and an enormous crab, and a large canvas bag of shrimps, out of his pockets, and piled them up in Ham's arms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Their crouching gait took away from their height, but I should put them at five feet or so, with long arms and enormous chests.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were still several hours of grey daylight and sombre twilight, and he utilised them in chopping an enormous supply of fire-wood.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But less than 1% of all stars are this enormous, so astronomers know very little about them.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

It was indeed an enormous crowd which covered the whole vast plain from the line of vineyards to the river bank.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)