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Big

adjective
(compar. bigger; superl. biggest)
1.
Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.  Synonym: large.  "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"
2.
Significant.
3.
Very intense.  Synonym: bad.  "In a big rage" , "Had a big (or bad) shock" , "A bad earthquake" , "A bad storm"
4.
Loud and firm.  "Big bold piano sounds"
5.
Conspicuous in position or importance.  Synonyms: large, prominent.  "Big man on campus" , "He's very large in financial circles" , "A prominent citizen"
6.
Prodigious.  Synonym: heavy.  "Big eater" , "Heavy investor"
7.
Exhibiting self-importance.  Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing.
8.
Feeling self-importance.  Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious.  "Had a swelled head" , "He was swelled with pride"
9.
(of animals) fully developed.  Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup.  "A grown woman"
10.
Marked by intense physical force.
11.
Generous and understanding and tolerant.  Synonyms: large, magnanimous.  "That's very big of you to be so forgiving" , "A large and generous spirit" , "A large heart" , "Magnanimous toward his enemies"
12.
Given or giving freely.  Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded.  "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"
13.
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.  Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child.  "Was great with child"
adverb
1.
Extremely well.
2.
In a boastful manner.  Synonyms: boastfully, large, vauntingly.
3.
On a grand scale.
4.
In a major way.



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"Big" Quotes from Famous Books



... to feel, my young friend. Some boys are so big-feeling and put on so many airs, that you'd think they were partners in the business, instead of beginning at the lowest round of the ladder. A while ago Mr. Gilbert brought round a cousin of his, about your age, that he wanted ...
— Fame and Fortune - or, The Progress of Richard Hunter • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... much like another. So many avenues, wide or narrow, where the little creatures swarm in strange confusion; these bustling by, important; these halting to pow-wow with one another. These struggling with big burdens; those but basking in the sun. So many granaries stored with food; so many cells where the little things sleep, and eat, and love; the corner where lie their little white bones. This hive is larger, the next smaller. This nest lies on the ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome

... high way neere this towne, there lieth a big and long moore stone, containing the remainder of certaine ingraued letters, purporting some memorable antiquity, as it should seeme, but ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew

... stopped us dead, the suction ceased, and the New York with her tug trailing behind moved obliquely down the dock, her stern gliding along the side of the Titanic some few yards away. It gave an extraordinary impression of the absolute helplessness of a big liner in the absence of any motive power to guide her. But all excitement was not yet over: the New York turned her bows inward towards the quay, her stern swinging just clear of and passing in front ...
— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley

... you would want a big room for giving parties and entertainments. Mary would make a lovely hostess, and the fisher folk would feel as if they were living in a new world. Oily Dave's dreadful whisky would have no chance at all against the attractions offered ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant


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