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单词 biggish
释义

biggish

adjective

big·​gish ˈbi-gish How to pronounce biggish (audio)
: somewhat big

Synonyms

  • big
  • boxcar
  • bulky
  • considerable
  • goodly
  • grand
  • great
  • handsome
  • hefty
  • hulking
  • husky
  • large
  • largish
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • oversize
  • oversized
  • sizable
  • sizeable
  • substantial
  • tidy
  • voluminous
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Example Sentences

a rather biggish table for a dining room of modest dimensions a biggish wart that should be removed
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Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

biggish

adjective

1
as in large
of a size greater than average of its kind a rather biggish table for a dining room of modest dimensions

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • large
  • sizable
  • considerable
  • big
  • substantial
  • huge
  • great
  • tidy
  • handsome
  • largish
  • gigantic
  • oversize
  • enormous
  • massive
  • excessive
  • bulky
  • sizeable
  • tremendous
  • goodly
  • hefty
  • oversized
  • vast
  • colossal
  • voluminous
  • staggering
  • outsize
  • hulking
  • husky
  • outsized
  • grand
  • spacious
  • extravagant
  • major
  • boxcar
  • mammoth
  • immense
  • gargantuan
  • astronomical
  • ample
  • humongous
  • stupendous
  • mountainous
  • super
  • plentiful
  • vasty
  • cosmic
  • prodigious
  • humungous
  • monstrous
  • monolithic
  • cavernous
  • whopping
  • whacking
  • titanic
  • herculean
  • jumbo
  • monumental
  • appreciable
  • elephantine
  • galactic
  • heroic
  • bumper
  • gross
  • exorbitant
  • extreme
  • leviathan
  • thick
  • inordinate
  • astronomic
  • cyclopean
  • heroical
  • supersized
  • walloping
  • copious
  • abundant
  • immoderate
  • king-sized
  • cosmical
  • hellacious
  • commodious
  • pharaonic
  • roomy
  • Brobdingnagian
  • capacious
  • super-duper
  • king-size
  • Himalayan
  • Bunyanesque
  • fat

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • small
  • smallish
  • little
  • puny
  • dinky
  • tiny
  • undersized
  • dwarf
  • undersize
  • dwarfish
  • bantam
  • diminutive
  • shrimpy
  • minuscule
  • wee
  • infinitesimal
  • teeny
  • microscopic
  • miniature
  • little bitty
  • mini
  • microscopical
  • teensy
  • pygmy
  • minute
  • slender
  • thin
  • slight
  • petite
  • slim
  • teeny-weeny
  • teensy-weensy
  • pocket-sized
  • microminiature
  • pocket-size
  • pint-sized
  • pint-size
  • Lilliputian
  • half-pint
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2
as in sizable
sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention a biggish wart that should be removed

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • sizable
  • considerable
  • significant
  • substantial
  • good
  • huge
  • big
  • major
  • largish
  • respectable
  • tremendous
  • goodly
  • great
  • handsome
  • substantive
  • sizeable
  • tidy
  • massive
  • healthy
  • gigantic
  • hefty
  • enormous
  • bulky
  • outsize
  • colossal
  • voluminous
  • hulking
  • oversize
  • mammoth
  • outsized
  • immense
  • prodigious
  • monstrous
  • herculean
  • monumental
  • whopping
  • oversized
  • astronomical
  • titanic
  • jumbo
  • elephantine
  • bumper
  • king-sized
  • astronomic
  • king-size

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • insignificant
  • inconsiderable
  • negligible
  • nominal
  • inconsequential
  • unimportant
  • puny
  • insubstantial
  • trivial
  • small
  • petty
  • marginal
  • paltry
  • piddling
  • trifling
  • tiny
  • meager
  • meagre
  • slight
  • little
  • minute
  • picayune
  • smallish
  • measly
  • undersized
  • diminutive
  • undersize
  • bitty
  • miniature
  • pocket
  • picayunish
  • pygmy
  • pocket-sized
  • pocket-size
  • pint-sized
  • pint-size
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