单词 | abnormous |
释义 | abnormousadj. Now rare. Originally: irregular; exaggerated; misshapen. In later use also (humorous, chiefly U.S.): enormous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] misshapena1400 deformedc1400 forshapenc1440 misfashioned?a1513 inform1555 fromshapen1581 misformed1590 informous1610 disjointed1652 ill-formeda1672 abnormous1710 malformed1817 dislocated1830 aberrated1976 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 1710 E. Curll Case Dr Sachaverell 15 Some, that are wholly Govern'd by Singularity and Novelty, affect what is Abnormous and Surprizing, they endeavour to think out of the Way and to shew their Wit in maintaining Paradoxes. 1742 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Abnormous, mishapen, vast, huge. 1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 240 Sir Toby Matthews was a character equally if not of a more abnormous cast than his suspected coadjutor. 1790 H. Downman Infancy (ed. 5) v. 153 Exercise Too far impell'd, abnormous, and for years Continued, renders dense the nervous tide. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. v. §iii. §48. 252 The general structure of the couplet through the seventeenth century may be called abnormous. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 5 The former [sc. divine myths] being often the more extravagant and abnormous in their incidents. 1859 M. A. Richter Internal Relations Cities, Towns, Villages, Counties, & States of Union 110 What is there, I ask, abnormous in the claim of a man, who..has raised and trained a laborer from childhood. 1909 Gettysburg (Pa.) Compiler 13 Jan. 3/4 The times are hard, many men out of work. That makes an abnormous demand for charity. 1918 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 15 Nov. 3/4 There is an abnormous export business that has been waiting for four years for ships. 1957 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Apr. 16 b/2 She lives a normal existence with her mother and younger brother, loves to read..and has just one weakness in clothes: ‘abnormous’ hats. 1959 M. Henry Muley-Ears, Nobody’s Dog 4 His ears are the most magnificent part of him. They are simply abnormous! They stand straight up in the air, as if they were wired. Derivatives abˈnormously adv. rare ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adverb] enormous1566 enormouslya1617 abnormally1831 abnormously1851 1851 Proc. Zool. Soc. 19 45 The old males have the second hand wing-feather abnormously short and of an unusual formation. 1878 A. Trollope Is he Popenjoy? II. ii. 26 A brat so abnormously distasteful and abominable. 1956 S. Wright Get away from Me (1957) iii. 154 Something abnormously unnatural is the house in the Via Gregoriana. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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