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[ adjective ] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

Examples

"huge government spending" "huge country estates" "huge popular demand for higher education" "a huge wave" "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base

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[ adjective ] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

Synonyms

vast immense

Examples

"huge government spending" "huge country estates" "huge popular demand for higher education" "a huge wave" "immense numbers of birds";

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

The flowers will be huge .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

Huge industries are involved also in the production of biological products , drugs and cosmetics which are liable to this type of attack .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

His thirteenth chapter includes many exciting accounts of huge serpents with prodigious strength , but these seem to be given to complete his picture , not to be believed .

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

Scotty 's father sat sprawled in his chair , angular , alert as a cricket , looking about at the huge stainless-steel appointments of the room with an expression of proprietorship .

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

Huge glob-flakes hitting the ground , piling higher and higher .

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