'Enormous' definitions:
Definition of 'enormous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "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" [syn: enormous, tremendous]
Definition of 'Enormous'
From: GCIDE
- Enormous \E*nor"mous\, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See Normal.]
- 1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." --Milton. "This enormous state." --Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." --Jenyns. [1913 Webster]
- Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. [1913 Webster]
- That detestable profession of a life so enormous. --Bale.
- Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous.
- Usage: -- Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. "Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor." --V. Knox. "Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive." --La Rochefoucauld (Trans). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'enormous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- abominable,
- abysmal,
- amplitudinous,
- arrant,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- atrocious,
- awesome,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- blameworthy,
- boundless,
- Brobdingnagian,
- brutal,
- bulky,
- colossal,
- contemptible,
- cosmic,
- Cyclopean,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disgusting,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- elephantine,
- epic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- galactic,
- gargantuan,
- Gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- high,
- Homeric,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- huge,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- immoderate,
- incontinent,
- infamous,
- infinite,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- lamentable,
- large,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- outsize,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overweening,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sizable,
- sordid,
- spacious,
- squalid,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stupendous,
- terrible,
- titanic,
- too bad,
- too much,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- unbridled,
- unclean,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- vast,
- vile,
- villainous,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched