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| Main Entry: | large |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, blimp*, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, considerable, copious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, full, generous, giant, gigantic, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hefty, huge, humongous*, immeasurable, immense, jumbo*, liberal, massive, monumental, mountainous, plentiful, populous, roomy, sizable, spacious, stupendous, substantial, super, sweeping, tidy, vast, voluminous, whopping*, wide, barn door, booming, goodly, thumping |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cool*, decent, delightful, fair, hip*, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball*, passable, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, welcome, A-OK, cooking with gas, copacetic, hep, hunky-dory, in the swim, on the beam, peachy keen, right on, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ample |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | more than necessary, sufficient |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, big, bountiful, broad, capacious, commodious, copious, enough, expansive, extensive, full, galore, generous, great, heavy, large, lavish, liberal, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, roomy, spacious, spare, substantial, unrestricted, voluminous, wide, bounteous, no end, plenteous |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, meager, not enough |
| Main Entry: | appreciable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily noticed; considerable |
| Synonyms: | apparent, clear-cut, definite, discernible, estimable, evident, healthy, large, manifest, marked, material, measurable, noticeable, observable, obvious, perceivable, perceptible, plain, pronounced, sensible, significant, sizable, substantial, tangible, visible, ascertainable, detectable, distinguishable, good-sized, goodly, recognizable |
| Antonyms: | imperceptible, negligible, unnoticed, inconsiderable, unappreciable |
| Main Entry: | bulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | awkward, beefy, big, colossal, cumbersome, enormous, gross, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, immense, large, long, mammoth, massive, ponderous, substantial, unmanageable, unwieldy, voluminous, weighty, cumbrous, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | insubstantial, miniature, small, thin, tiny |
| Main Entry: | celebrated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distinguished, famous |
| Synonyms: | acclaimed, big*, eminent, famed, glorious, great, high-powered, illustrious, immortal, important, large, notable, number one, outstanding, popular, preeminent, prominent, renowned, storied, well-known, laureate, lionized, numero uno, revered, up there, w. k. |
| Antonyms: | inglorious, obscure, plain, unknown, inexalted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commodious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ample, spacious |
| Synonyms: | big, capacious, comfortable, convenient, expansive, extensive, large, loose, roomy, wide |
| Antonyms: | confined, cramped, inconvenient, small, uncomfortable, squeezed |
| Main Entry: | corpulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fat, chubby |
| Synonyms: | beefy*, blimp*, bulky, burly, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, large, lusty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, roly-poly*, rotund, stout, tubby, weighty, baby elephant, embonpoint, having a bay window, having a spare tire, well-padded |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, thin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elephantine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | big, colossal, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, great, humongous, immense, jumbo*, large, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, titanic, towering, behemothic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | far-reaching, thorough |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, big, blanket*, boundless, broad, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, considerable, extended, far-flung*, general, great, hefty, huge, inclusive, indiscriminate, large, lengthy, long, major, pervasive, prevalent, roomy, sizable, spacious, sweeping, universal, unrestricted, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, widespread, across the board, all-encompassing, comprising, expanded, large-scale, protracted, scopic, scopious, unexclusive, wall to wall, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow, restricted, short, uncomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hulking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | massive |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, clumsy, colossal, cumbersome, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, gigantic, grand, great, heavy, hefty, huge, immense, imposing, large, lumbering, mammoth, monumental, solid, titanic, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, weighty |
| Main Entry: | immeasurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite, incalculable |
| Synonyms: | bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, extensive, immense, indefinite, inestimable, inexhaustible, large, limitless, umpteen, unfathomable, unlimited, vast, alive with, crawling with, illimitable, jillion, measureless, no end of, no end to, unbounded, uncountable, unmeasurable, unreckonable, zillion |
| Antonyms: | bounded, calculable, finite, limited, measurable |
| Main Entry: | jumbo |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gigantic |
| Synonyms: | colossal, elephantine, giant, huge, immense, large, mammoth, mighty, prodigious, cyclopean, oversized |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny, mini |
| Main Entry: | mammoth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, high, immense, jumbo, large, long, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, titanic, vast, behemothic, leviathan |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | numerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | many, abundant |
| Synonyms: | big, copious, diverse, great, infinite, large, legion, multifarious, multitudinous, plentiful, populous, profuse, rife, scads*, several, sundry, thick, umpteen, various, voluminous, lousy with, multitudinal, zillion |
| Notes: | numerable means that can be counted while numerous means amounting to a large indefinite number numerous means amounting to a large indefinite number while innumerable means too numerous to be counted |
| Antonyms: | deficient, few, lacking, little, small |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bountiful, chock-full*, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superfluous, swimming, teeming, bounteous, bumper, lousy with, plenteous, superabundant, swarming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, rare, scarce, wanting, needing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bulky, fat |
| Synonyms: | ample, beefy*, broad, burly, corpulent, fleshy, heavy, hefty, husky, large, obese, overweight, plump, rotund, stout, avoirdupois |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, thin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretty |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | considerable; somewhat |
| Synonyms: | ample, fairly, kind of, large, moderately, more or less, much, notable, quite, rather, reasonably, sizable, some, something, sort of, a little, pretty much, tolerably |
| Main Entry: | roomy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having ample space |
| Synonyms: | ample, broad, capacious, commodious, extensive, generous, large, sizable, spacious, wide |
| Antonyms: | cramped, narrow, cluttered |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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