LARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does large mean? 

• LARGE (noun)
  The noun LARGE has 1 sense:

1. a garment size for a large person

  Familiarity information: LARGE used as a noun is very rare.

• LARGE (adjective)
  The adjective LARGE has 7 senses:

1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

2. fairly large or important in effect; influential

3. ostentatiously lofty in style

4. generous and understanding and tolerant

5. conspicuous in position or importance

6. having broad power and range and scope

7. in an advanced stage of pregnancy

  Familiarity information: LARGE used as an adjective is common.

• LARGE (adverb)
  The adverb LARGE has 3 senses:

1. at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

2. with the wind abaft the beam

3. in a boastful manner

  Familiarity information: LARGE used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A garment size for a large person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("large" is a kind of...):

size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))

Derivation:

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

• LARGE (adjective)

Comparative: larger   
Superlative: largest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

Synonyms:

big; large

Context example:

large areas of the world

Similar:

medium-large (of anything that is large but not the largest)

king-size; king-sized (extra large)

massive (imposing in scale or scope or degree or power)

massive; monolithic; monumental (imposing in size or bulk or solidity)

man-sized (very large; appropriate to the size of a man)

macro (very large in scale or scope or capability)

macroscopic; macroscopical (large enough to be visible with the naked eye)

full-size; life-size; life-sized; lifesize (being of the same size as an original)

large-scale (constructed or drawn to a big scale)

large-scale (unusually large in scope)

large-mouthed (having a relatively large mouth)

hulking; hulky (of great size and bulk)

monstrous (abnormally large)

mountainous (like a mountain in size and impressiveness)

outsize; outsized; oversize; oversized (larger than normal for its kind)

overlarge; too large (excessively large)

plumping (very large; of exceptional size for its kind)

queen-size; queen-sized ((used especially of beds) not as large as king-size)

rangy (allowing ample room for ranging)

super (extremely large)

titanic (of great force or power)

volumed (formed or rising in rounded masses)

voluminous (large in volume or bulk)

whacking ((British informal) enormous)

wide-ranging (including much)

Brobdingnagian; huge; immense; vast (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)

ample; sizable; sizeable (fairly large in size)

astronomic; astronomical; galactic (inconceivably large)

bear-sized (large as a bear)

bigger; larger (large or big relative to something else)

biggish; largish (somewhat large)

blown-up; enlarged (as of a photograph; made larger)

bouffant; puffy (being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing)

broad; spacious; wide (very large in expanse or scope)

bulky (of large size for its weight)

capacious (large in capacity)

colossal; prodigious; stupendous (so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe)

deep (large in quantity or size)

double (large enough for two)

enormous; tremendous (extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree)

cosmic (inconceivably extended in space or time)

elephantine; gargantuan; giant; jumbo (of great mass; huge and bulky)

epic; heroic; larger-than-life (very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale))

extended; extensive (large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity)

gigantic; mammoth (so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth)

great (relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind)

grand (large and impressive in physical size or extent)

banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping ((used informally) very large)

Attribute:

size (the physical magnitude of something (how big it is))

Antonym:

small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

large (a garment size for a large person)

largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fairly large or important in effect; influential

Context example:

played a large role in the negotiations

Similar:

important; significant (important in effect or meaning)

Derivation:

largeness (large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ostentatiously lofty in style

Synonyms:

bombastic; declamatory; large; orotund; tumid; turgid

Context example:

tumid political prose

Similar:

rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)

Derivation:

largeness (the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Generous and understanding and tolerant

Synonyms:

big; large; magnanimous

Context example:

magnanimous toward his enemies

Similar:

generous (not petty in character and mind)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Conspicuous in position or importance

Synonyms:

big; large; prominent

Context example:

a prominent citizen

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Having broad power and range and scope

Context example:

a large sympathy

Similar:

comprehensive (including all or everything)

Derivation:

largeness (the capacity to understand a broad range of topics)

Sense 7

Meaning:

In an advanced stage of pregnancy

Synonyms:

big; enceinte; expectant; gravid; great; heavy; large; with child

Context example:

was great with child

Similar:

pregnant (carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life)

Derivation:

largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

• LARGE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With the wind abaft the beam

Context example:

a ship sailing large

Sense 3

Meaning:

In a boastful manner

Synonyms:

big; boastfully; large; vauntingly

Context example:

he talked big all evening

 Context examples 

However, Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, will be playing a large role in what comes up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I do not know what kind of creatures inhabit such a thicket, but several times we heard the plunging of large, heavy animals quite close to us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Toward evening, when Dorothy was tired with her long walk and began to wonder where she should pass the night, she came to a house rather larger than the rest.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then a large log of wood came and said, “I am big enough; I will lay myself across the stream, and you shall pass over upon me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in slanted glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I should like to know that John was firmly established in some good business, which gave him an income large enough to keep free from debt and make Meg comfortable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have had a sirloin so large, that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this is rare.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He extended the fire into a large circle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This agent may be normally present in very small quantities in urine and blood; larger amounts may be found in the urine and blood of diabetics.

(Acetone, NCI Thesaurus)

If it grows large enough, it can press against the brain, becoming life-threatening.

(Acoustic Neuroma, NIH: National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders)