'BIG' definitions:
Definition of 'big'
From: WordNet
adverb
Extremely well; "his performance went over big"
adverb
adverb
On a grand scale; "think big" [ant: small]
adverb
In a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
adjective
Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "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" [syn: large, big] [ant: little, small]
adjective
Significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
adjective
Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad, big]
adjective
Loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
adjective
Conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: big, large, prominent]
adjective
Prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)]
adjective
Exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising]
adjective
Feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: big, swelled, vainglorious]
adjective
(of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup]
adjective
Marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
adjective
Generous and understanding and tolerant; "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" [syn: big, large, magnanimous]
adjective
Given or giving freely; "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" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
adjective
Definition of 'Big'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Big'
From: GCIDE
- Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. [1913 Webster]
- "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." --New English Dict. [1913 Webster] Big
Definition of 'Big'
From: GCIDE
- Big \Big\ (b[i^]g), a. [Compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.] [Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build, akin to E. be.]
- 1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [1913 Webster]
- [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. [1913 Webster]
- God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced. [1913 Webster]
- To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously. [1913 Webster]
- I talked big to them at first. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross. [1913 Webster] Big
Synonyms of 'big'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adult,
- aggrandized,
- ample,
- apotheosized,
- arrogant,
- arty,
- awash,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awfully,
- beatified,
- benevolent,
- big boy,
- big cheese,
- big noise,
- big shot,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bighearted,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- bombastic,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- bull,
- bumper,
- canonized,
- capacious,
- chivalrous,
- chock-full,
- cloyed,
- clumsy,
- commodious,
- comprehensive,
- condescending,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- considerate,
- copious,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- damned,
- deified,
- distended,
- domineering,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- extremely,
- fat,
- flushed,
- full to bursting,
- gassy,
- generous,
- glorified,
- glutted,
- gone,
- goodly,
- grand,
- gravid,
- great,
- great gun,
- great of heart,
- greathearted,
- greatly,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- handsome,
- haughty,
- healthy,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hefty,
- held in awe,
- heroic,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-powered,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hugely,
- hulking,
- husky,
- idealistic,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- important,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- knightly,
- large,
- large-scale,
- largehearted,
- liberal,
- lion,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- magnified,
- major,
- man-sized,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- material,
- mature,
- maturescent,
- meaningful,
- mighty,
- momentous,
- much,
- name,
- noble,
- noble-minded,
- nubile,
- numerous,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- old,
- openhanded,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overflowing,
- packed,
- parturient,
- patronizing,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- replete,
- roomy,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- sated,
- satiated,
- satisfied,
- self-important,
- shrined,
- significant,
- sizable,
- spacious,
- stuck-up,
- stuffed,
- sublime,
- substantial,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- throned,
- tidy,
- toplofty,
- unwieldy,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- whacking,
- whopping,
- windy,
- world-shaking
Acronyms for 'BIG'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Bionet Intelligent Gateway (BioData)
Words containing 'BIG'
- Bigging,
- Bigly,
- Bigness,
- Big Apple,
- Big Arm,
- Big Bay,
- Big Beaver,
- Big Bend,
- Big Bertha,
- Big Blue,
- Big Board,
- Big Brother,
- Big Cabin,
- Big Creek,
- Big Delta,
- Big Dipper,
- Big Falls,
- Big Flat,
- Big Flats,
- Big Horn,
- Big Lake,
- Big Park,
- Big Pine,
- Big Piney,
- Big Point,
- Big Rapids,
- Big River,
- Big Run,
- Big Sandy,
- Big Sky,
- Big Spring,
- Big Springs,
- Big Stone,
- Big Timber,
- Big Water,
- Big Wells,
- Big gun,
- The Big Apple,
- To talk big,
- big band,
- big bang,
- big bedbug,
- big ben,
- big bruiser,
- big bucks,
- big business,
- big businessman,
- big cat,
- big cheese,
- big deal,
- big enchilada,
- big fish,
- big game,
- big h,
- big hand,
- big league,
- big leaguer,
- big marigold,
- big money,
- big mouth,
- big name,
- big sagebrush,
- big science,
- big shagbark,
- big shellbark,
- big shot,
- big sister,
- big spender,
- big stick,
- big sur,
- big talk,
- big talker,
- big time,
- big toe,
- big top,
- big tree,
- big wheel,
- go over big,
- talk big,
- Big Arm, MT,
- Big Bay, MI,
- Big Bear City,
- Big Bear Lake,
- Big Beaver, PA,
- Big Bend State,
- Big Bend, CA,
- Big Bend, WI,
- Big Cabin, OK,
- Big Coppitt Key,
- Big Creek, MS,
- Big Delta, AK,
- Big Falls, MN,
- Big Falls, WI,
- Big Flat, AR,
- Big Flats Airport,
- Big Flats, NY,
- Big Horn County,
- Big Horn, MT,
- Big Horn, WY,
- Big Lake, AK,
- Big Lake, MN,
- Big Lake, MO,
- Big Lake, TX,
- Big Lake, WA,
- Big Park, AZ,
- Big Pine Key,
- Big Pine, CA,
- Big Piney, WY,
- Big Point, MS,
- Big Rapids, MI,
- Big River, CA,
- Big Run, PA,
- Big Sandy, MT,
- Big Sandy, TN,
- Big Sandy, TX,
- Big Sky, MT,
- Big Spring, TX,
- Big Springs, NE,
- Big Stone City,
- Big Stone County,
- Big Stone Gap,
- Big Stone, MN,
- Big Timber, MT,
- Big Water, UT,
- Big Wells, TX,
- Big-bellied,
- Big-wigged,
- big bang theory,
- big bill haywood,
- big bill tilden,
- big brown bat,
- big shellbark hickory,
- big sioux river,
- big time operator,
- big-boned,
- big-chested,
- big-shouldered,
- big-ticket,
- too big for one's breeches,
- Big Bear City, CA,
- Big Bear Lake, CA,
- Big Coppitt Key, FL,
- Big Flats Airport, NY,
- Big Horn County, MT,
- Big Horn County, WY,
- Big Pine Key, FL,
- Big Stone City, SD,
- Big Stone County, MN,
- Big Stone Gap, VA,
- big bend national park,
- big-bang theory,
- big-bud hickory,
- big-cone spruce,
- big-eared bat,
- big-eye mackerel,
- big-eyed mackerel,
- big-eyed scad,
- big-leaf maple,
- big-mouthed buffalofish,
- big-toothed aspen,
- big-tree plum,
- Groveland-Big Oak Flat,
- big-cone douglas fir,
- western big-eared bat,
- Groveland-Big Oak Flat, CA