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HUGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does huge mean?
• HUGE (adjective)
The adjective HUGE has 1 sense:
1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Familiarity information: HUGE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Declension: comparative and superlative |
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Synonyms:
Brobdingnagian; huge; immense; vast
Context example:
the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples
This region of the Milky Way houses a huge cloud of star-making material.
(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)
Then a huge dog was thrust inside, and the door was slammed shut behind him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This large core — huge compared to the other rocky planets in our solar system — has long been one of the most intriguing mysteries about Mercury.
(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)
Those include huge expansions in two families of genes previously thought to be unique to vertebrates, and a complex gene arrangement.
(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Looking back, the huge house was one blaze of light.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The study's results also suggest that identifying every microbial species on Earth presents a huge challenge.
(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)
Once upon a yellow sandbank I saw a creature like a huge swan, with a clumsy body and a high, flexible neck, shuffling about upon the margin.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Local Void is a huge stretch of space that is at least 150 million light-years across.
(Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space, NASA)
The Dogue de Bordeaux is a short, stocky mastiff with a huge, heavy, broad, wrinkled head.
(Dogue-de-Bordeaux, NCI Thesaurus)
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