hugeadj.adv.

Brit.

/hjuːdʒ/, U.S.

/(h)judʒ/

Forms: Middle English– huge; also Middle English hoge, heug(e, Middle English–1500s houge, Middle English–1600s hudge, (Middle English hogge, hug, hughe, Middle English hugge, howge, hogh(e, hoege, 1500s houdge, hewge, hoouge).

Etymology: Middle English huge, hoge, apparently aphetic < Old French ahuge, ahoge, ahoege, in same sense, of unknown origin. It is, however, noteworthy that no connecting link in the form of huge in Old French, or ahuge in early Middle English, has as yet been found.

A. adj.

1. Very great, large, or big; immense, enormous, vast.

a. Of things material or of spatial extent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge

un-i-fohOE

ormeteOE

hugea1275

un-i-feiec1275

infinitec1385

ponderousa1400

hugeful1413

hugyc1420

thrice1470

felon?a1500

hugeousa1529

enormous1544

enormc1560

fell1586

prodigious1601

immensive1604

colossic1607

monumental1632

vast1637

unfathomed1659

colossal1664

ponderose1680

heroic1785

colossian1794

pyramidal1849

astronomical1871

astronomic1923

stratospheric1932

cosmic1935

ginormous1942

galactic1960

mega1968

humongous1970

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge

unmeeteOE

unmeetlyOE

hugea1275

hideousc1330

infinitec1385

unmeasureda1398

unmeasurablec1405

hugyc1420

immeasurable1440

ingentc1450

unmeetlyc1450

giant1480

immense1490

monstrous?a1513

unmeasurely1513

hugeousa1529

unportable1537

enormous1544

enormc1560

giantly1561

immensible1579

rouncival1582

dismeasured1584

vast1585

immeasured1590

gargantuan1596

omnipotent1596

colossian1601

immane1601

prodigious1601

Polyphemian1602

Titanian1603

titanical1603

gigantical1604

immensive1604

gigantine1605

colossic1607

gigantean1611

Gogmagotical1612

gigantal?1614

Babylonian1617

leviathan1625

titanic1628

elephantine1631

gigantive1638

colossean1644

decumanal1652

immensurate1654

gigant1658

decuman1659

colossal1664

abnormous1710

Brobdingnagian1728

Brobdingnag1731

Pantagruelian1737

heroic1785

Patagonian1786

seven-league1787

Titan1793

gigantic1797

seven-leagued1799

mammoth1801

dimensionless1813

tremendous1813

gigantesque1821

monster1837

titanesque1838

monstre1840

giantlike1847

leviathanic1848

pythonic1851

Babylonic1853

supercolossal1871

giantesque1909

behemothian1910

supergiant1919

ginormous1942

big-ass1945

Ozymandian1961

fuck-off1962

mega1968

humongous1970

monstro1970

big-assed1972

big-arsed1996

a1275 Prov. Ælfred 709 in Old Eng. Misc. 138 Þuru þis lore and genteleri he amendit huge companie.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 31 He brouht with him a deuelle, a hogge Geant.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 236 He..made an hughe fire.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 743 Of hore okeȝ ful hoge a hundreth to-geder.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 231 A ful houge and boystous meyne of dyuerse nacions.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 343 The waues of the hudge floude.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 212 Fishes are in huge numbers here.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. vii. 246 So moved huge Ajax to the fight.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 373 Naples is huge, and populous.

1890 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry 221 The huge fireplace with its dragon-like dogs.

b. Of things immaterial.

ΚΠ

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 242 Martha on Marye magdeleyne an huge pleynte she made.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1659 He hade so huge an insyȝt to his aune dedes.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 346 For hoege luf y^t he shuld noght hire greue.

c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 671 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 66 A gret hug thonir [com] but bad.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvi. sig. U.v^v Howe wonderfull houge and greate those spiritual heauenly Ioyes are.

1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) Pref. 3 The Peace..of the Church is a matter of that huge moment, that [etc.].

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 143 [He] took a huge fancy to the wench.

1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 135 His affliction serves as a measure of the huger affliction of the King.

c. transferred. Of persons in reference to their actions or attributes: Of very great power, rank, possessions, capabilities, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance > of rank

muchc1275

huge1430

highish1828

high-ranking1850

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vi. iii. 150 b The great Duke so mightie and so huge.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 29 Off Glosyster that huge..lord and her.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3924 Hoger of hert and of her wille, He demenyt well his maners, & be mesure wroght.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xi. 163 An only child, the last of a line; hugest Heiress now going.

†2. Very great in number, very numerous. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous

so manyc888

thickc893

muchc1225

rifec1275

stourc1275

unridec1300

copiousc1384

plentya1400

rivedc1400

numerable?a1425

numerous?a1475

many a several1543

rank1545

numberous1566

huge1570

multuous1586

multeous1589

numberful1594

numberable1596

numbery1606

numbersomea1617

multitudinousa1631

sand-like1630

voluminous1650

several1712

smart1750

powerful1800

multitudinarious1810

multitudinary1838

1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xix. 89 Hudge is ȝour fais within this fals Regioun.

†3. in huge: hugely, vastly, extensively. (Cf. at large) Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > at length

longlyOE

large1395

largelya1398

at large1450

at the lengthc1500

at long1565

in huge1608

at full, great, some, etc. length1713

lengthily1787

prolongedly1832

1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith i. 16 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) More than euer Rome could comprehend, In huge of learned bookes that they pend.

†B. adv.

Hugely, immensely. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adverb] > hugely

huge1508

giantly1625

immeasurably1631

immensely1654

gigantically1678

enormously1695

colossally1809

tremendously1832

mega1966

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely

hugelyc1380

huge1508

enormly1538

monstruously?1548

massively1550

monstrously1602

a worlda1616

hugeouslya1643

immensely1654

vastly1664

swingingly1668

hugeous1673

gigantically1678

vast1688

swingeing1690

thumpingly1693

enormously1695

pancratically1727

immense1754

colossally1809

whooping1866

monumentally1877

pyramidically1886

pyramidally1891

galactically1968

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii*^v Yone house is sa huge hie.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 11 Tombes are made so huge great, that they take vp the Church.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. Lessenings of them, who have done huge well.

1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. (1843) 290 Many are huge concerned to shift off the conviction of this truth.

Compounds

Parasynthetic, as huge-armed, huge-bellied, huge-bodied, huge-boned, huge-built, huge-grown, huge-horned, huge-limbed, huge-proportioned, huge-tongued, etc. adjs.

ΚΠ

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E8^v Huge tongu'd pigmy brats.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 215 Many a huge-growne Wood.

1645 J. Milton Psalm cxiv in Poems 13 The high, huge-bellied Mountains skip like Rams.

1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xv. 263 Huge-boned, and tall, and grim, and gaunt.

1877 W. C. Bryant Little People 122 Huge-limbed men.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	huge
释义	hugeadj.adv. Brit. /hjuːdʒ/, U.S. /(h)judʒ/ Forms: Middle English– huge; also Middle English hoge, heug(e, Middle English–1500s houge, Middle English–1600s hudge, (Middle English hogge, hug, hughe, Middle English hugge, howge, hogh(e, hoege, 1500s houdge, hewge, hoouge). Etymology: Middle English huge, hoge, apparently aphetic < Old French ahuge, ahoge, ahoege, in same sense, of unknown origin. It is, however, noteworthy that no connecting link in the form of huge in Old French, or ahuge in early Middle English, has as yet been found. A. adj. 1. Very great, large, or big; immense, enormous, vast. a. Of things material or of spatial extent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge un-i-fohOE ormeteOE hugea1275 un-i-feiec1275 infinitec1385 ponderousa1400 hugeful1413 hugyc1420 thrice1470 felon?a1500 hugeousa1529 enormous1544 enormc1560 fell1586 prodigious1601 immensive1604 colossic1607 monumental1632 vast1637 unfathomed1659 colossal1664 ponderose1680 heroic1785 colossian1794 pyramidal1849 astronomical1871 astronomic1923 stratospheric1932 cosmic1935 ginormous1942 galactic1960 mega1968 humongous1970 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 a1275 Prov. Ælfred 709 in Old Eng. Misc. 138 Þuru þis lore and genteleri he amendit huge companie. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 31 He brouht with him a deuelle, a hogge Geant. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 236 He..made an hughe fire. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 743 Of hore okeȝ ful hoge a hundreth to-geder. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 231 A ful houge and boystous meyne of dyuerse nacions. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 343 The waues of the hudge floude. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 212 Fishes are in huge numbers here. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. vii. 246 So moved huge Ajax to the fight. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 373 Naples is huge, and populous. 1890 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry 221 The huge fireplace with its dragon-like dogs. b. Of things immaterial. ΚΠ 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 242 Martha on Marye magdeleyne an huge pleynte she made. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1659 He hade so huge an insyȝt to his aune dedes. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 346 For hoege luf y^t he shuld noght hire greue. c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 671 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 66 A gret hug thonir [com] but bad. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvi. sig. U.v^v Howe wonderfull houge and greate those spiritual heauenly Ioyes are. 1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) Pref. 3 The Peace..of the Church is a matter of that huge moment, that [etc.]. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 143 [He] took a huge fancy to the wench. 1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 135 His affliction serves as a measure of the huger affliction of the King. c. transferred. Of persons in reference to their actions or attributes: Of very great power, rank, possessions, capabilities, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance > of rank muchc1275 huge1430 highish1828 high-ranking1850 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vi. iii. 150 b The great Duke so mightie and so huge. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 29 Off Glosyster that huge..lord and her. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3924 Hoger of hert and of her wille, He demenyt well his maners, & be mesure wroght. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xi. 163 An only child, the last of a line; hugest Heiress now going. †2. Very great in number, very numerous. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous so manyc888 thickc893 muchc1225 rifec1275 stourc1275 unridec1300 copiousc1384 plentya1400 rivedc1400 numerable?a1425 numerous?a1475 many a several1543 rank1545 numberous1566 huge1570 multuous1586 multeous1589 numberful1594 numberable1596 numbery1606 numbersomea1617 multitudinousa1631 sand-like1630 voluminous1650 several1712 smart1750 powerful1800 multitudinarious1810 multitudinary1838 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xix. 89 Hudge is ȝour fais within this fals Regioun. †3. in huge: hugely, vastly, extensively. (Cf. at large) Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > at length longlyOE large1395 largelya1398 at large1450 at the lengthc1500 at long1565 in huge1608 at full, great, some, etc. length1713 lengthily1787 prolongedly1832 1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith i. 16 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) More than euer Rome could comprehend, In huge of learned bookes that they pend. †B. adv. Hugely, immensely. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adverb] > hugely huge1508 giantly1625 immeasurably1631 immensely1654 gigantically1678 enormously1695 colossally1809 tremendously1832 mega1966 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely hugelyc1380 huge1508 enormly1538 monstruously?1548 massively1550 monstrously1602 a worlda1616 hugeouslya1643 immensely1654 vastly1664 swingingly1668 hugeous1673 gigantically1678 vast1688 swingeing1690 thumpingly1693 enormously1695 pancratically1727 immense1754 colossally1809 whooping1866 monumentally1877 pyramidically1886 pyramidally1891 galactically1968 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii^v Yone house is sa huge hie. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments* 11 Tombes are made so huge great, that they take vp the Church. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. Lessenings of them, who have done huge well. 1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. (1843) 290 Many are huge concerned to shift off the conviction of this truth. Compounds Parasynthetic, as huge-armed, huge-bellied, huge-bodied, huge-boned, huge-built, huge-grown, huge-horned, huge-limbed, huge-proportioned, huge-tongued, etc. adjs. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E8^v Huge tongu'd pigmy brats. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 215 Many a huge-growne Wood. 1645 J. Milton Psalm cxiv in Poems 13 The high, huge-bellied Mountains skip like Rams. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xv. 263 Huge-boned, and tall, and grim, and gaunt. 1877 W. C. Bryant Little People 122 Huge-limbed men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.a1275
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