Synonyms: big, with child, large, heavy, gravid, great, enceinte, expectant
Definition: in an advanced stage of pregnancy
Usage: was big with child; was great with child
Similar words: pregnant
Definition: carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
Synonyms: big, prominent, large
Definition: conspicuous in position or importance
Usage: a big figure in the movement; big man on campus; he's very large in financial circles; a prominent citizen
Similar words: conspicuous
Definition: obvious to the eye or mind
Usage: a tower conspicuous at a great distance; wore conspicuous neckties; made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening
Synonyms: big, bighearted, freehanded, openhanded, bounteous, bountiful, giving, handsome, liberal
Definition: given or giving freely
Usage: was a big tipper; the bounteous goodness of God; bountiful compliments; a freehanded host; a handsome allowance; Saturday's child is loving and giving; a liberal backer of the arts; a munificent gift; her fond and openhanded grandfather
Synonyms: big, magnanimous, large
Definition: generous and understanding and tolerant
Usage: a heart big enough to hold no grudges; that's very big of you to be so forgiving; a large and generous spirit; a large heart; magnanimous toward his enemies
Similar words: generous
Definition: not petty in character and mind
Usage: unusually generous in his judgment of people
Synonyms: big
Definition: marked by intense physical force
Usage: a big wind
Similar words: heavy
Definition: of great intensity or power or force
Usage: a heavy blow; the fighting was heavy; heavy seas
Synonyms: big
Definition: significant
Usage: graduation was a big day in his life
Similar words: important, of import
Definition: of great significance or value
Usage: important people; the important questions of the day
Definition: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Usage: a large city; set out for the big city; a large sum; a big (or large) barn; a large family; big businesses; a big expenditure; a large number of newspapers; a big group of scientists; large areas of the world
Similar words: ample, sizable, sizeable
Definition: fairly large
Usage: a sizable fortune; an ample waistline; of ample proportions
Similar words: galactic, astronomic, astronomical
Definition: inconceivably large
Similar words: bear-sized
Definition: large as a bear
Definition: large or big relative to something else
Similar words: largish, biggish
Definition: somewhat large
Similar words: blown-up, enlarged
Definition: as of a photograph; made larger
Usage: the enlarged photograph revealed many details
Similar words: puffy, bouffant
Definition: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
Usage: a bouffant skirt
Similar words: broad, spacious, wide
Definition: very large in expanse or scope
Usage: a broad lawn; the wide plains; a spacious view; spacious skies
Similar words: bulky
Definition: of large size for its weight
Similar words: capacious
Definition: large in capacity
Usage: she carried a capacious bag
Similar words: colossal, stupendous, prodigious
Definition: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Usage: colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple; has a colossal nerve; a prodigious storm; a stupendous field of grass; stupendous demand
Similar words: deep
Definition: large in quantity or size
Usage: deep cuts in the budget
Similar words: double
Definition: large enough for two
Usage: a double bed; a double room
Similar words: enormous, tremendous
Definition: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
Usage: an enormous boulder; enormous expenses; tremendous sweeping plains; a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology- Walter Lippman; a plane took off with a tremendous noise
Similar words: cosmic
Definition: inconceivably extended in space or time
Similar words: jumbo, elephantine, gargantuan, giant
Definition: of great mass; huge and bulky
Usage: a jumbo jet; jumbo shrimp
Similar words: heroic, epic, larger-than-life
Definition: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
Usage: an epic voyage; of heroic proportions; heroic sculpture
Similar words: extended, extensive
Definition: large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
Usage: an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England; extended farm lands; surgeons with extended experience; they suffered extensive damage
Similar words: mammoth, gigantic
Definition: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
Usage: a gigantic redwood; gigantic disappointment; a mammoth ship; a mammoth multinational corporation
Similar words: great
Definition: relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
Usage: a great juicy steak; a great multitude; the great auk; a great old oak; a great ocean liner; a great delay
Similar words: grand
Definition: large and impressive in physical size or extent
Usage: the bridge is a grand structure
Similar words: immense, huge, Brobdingnagian, vast
Definition: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Usage: 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 of the mountains; immense numbers of birds; at vast (or immense) expense; the vast reaches of outer space; the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization- W.R.Inge
Definition: of great size and bulk
Usage: a hulking figure of a man; three hulking battleships
Similar words: humongous, whopping, walloping, thumping, banging
Definition: (used informally) very large
Usage: a thumping loss
Similar words: king-size, king-sized
Definition: extra large
Usage: a king-size bed
Similar words: large-mouthed
Definition: having a relatively large mouth
Similar words: large-scale
Definition: unusually large in scope
Usage: a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed
Similar words: large-scale
Definition: constructed or drawn to a big scale
Usage: large-scale maps
Similar words: life-size, life-sized, lifesize, full-size
Definition: being of the same size as an original
Usage: a life-size sculpture
Similar words: macroscopic, macroscopical
Definition: large enough to be visible with the naked eye
Similar words: macro
Definition: very large in scale or scope or capability
Similar words: man-sized
Definition: very large; appropriate to the size of a man
Usage: a man-sized piece of cake
Similar words: massive, monolithic, monumental
Definition: imposing in size or bulk or solidity
Usage: massive oak doors; Moore's massive sculptures; the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture; a monumental scale
Similar words: massive
Definition: imposing in scale or scope or degree or power
Usage: massive retaliatory power; a massive increase in oil prices; massive changes
Similar words: medium-large
Definition: of anything that is large but not the largest
Similar words: monstrous
Definition: abnormally large
Similar words: mountainous
Definition: like a mountain in size and impressiveness
Usage: mountainous waves; a mountainous dark man
Similar words: outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized
Definition: larger than normal for its kind
Similar words: overlarge, too large
Definition: excessively large
Similar words: plumping
Definition: very large; of exceptional size for its kind
Usage: won by a plumping majority
Similar words: queen-size, queen-sized
Definition: (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size
Usage: a queen-sized bed
Similar words: rangy
Definition: allowing ample room for ranging
Similar words: super
Definition: extremely large
Usage: another super skyscraper
Similar words: titanic
Definition: of great force or power
Similar words: volumed
Definition: formed or rising in rounded masses
Usage: gasping with the volumed smoke
Similar words: voluminous
Definition: large in volume or bulk
Usage: a voluminous skirt
Similar words: whacking
Definition: (British informal) enormous
Usage: a whacking phone bill; a whacking lie
Similar words: wide-ranging
Definition: including much
Usage: the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire
Synonyms: big
Definition: loud and firm
Usage: a big voice; big bold piano sounds
Similar words: loud
Definition: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
Usage: a group of loud children; loud thunder; her voice was too loud; loud trombones
Synonyms: grown, grownup, full-grown, fully grown, big, adult
Definition: (of animals) fully developed
Usage: an adult animal; a grown woman
Similar words: mature
Definition: having reached full natural growth or development
Usage: a mature cell
Definition: very intense
Usage: a bad headache; in a big rage; had a big (or bad) shock; a bad earthquake; a bad storm
Similar words: intense
Definition: possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
Usage: intense heat; intense anxiety; intense desire; intense emotion; the skunk's intense acrid odor; intense pain; enemy fire was intense
Synonyms: big, vainglorious, swelled
Definition: feeling self-importance
Usage: too big for his britches; had a swelled head; he was swelled with pride
Similar words: proud
Definition: feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
Usage: proud parents; proud of his accomplishments; a proud moment; proud to serve his country; a proud name; proud princes
Synonyms: braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, boastful, crowing, big, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing
Definition: exhibiting self-importance
Usage: big talk
Similar words: proud
Definition: feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
Usage: proud parents; proud of his accomplishments; a proud moment; proud to serve his country; a proud name; proud princes
Definition: prodigious
Usage: big spender; big eater; heavy investor