large

  • (a) 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
    big,
  • (r) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
  • (r) with the wind abaft the beam
    • a ship sailing large
  • (s) fairly large or important in effect; influential
    • played a large role in the negotiations
  • (s) ostentatiously lofty in style
    • a man given to large talk
    • tumid political prose
    bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid,
  • (r) in a boastful manner
    • he talked big all evening
    boastfully, vauntingly, big,
  • (s) 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
    magnanimous, big,
  • (s) 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
    prominent, big,
  • (s) having broad power and range and scope
    • taking the large view
    • a large effect
    • a large sympathy
  • (s) in an advanced stage of pregnancy
    • was big with child
    • was great with child
    enceinte, gravid, with child, expectant, great, big, heavy,

Nouns

  • (n) a garment size for a large person

Synonyms

big bombastic declamatory orotund tumid turgid boastfully vauntingly magnanimous prominent enceinte gravid with child expectant great heavy

Antonyms

little small

Words of close approximity

largo
lard Lari lark larn
larch largo larid Larix Larus larva
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