1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
   "a large city"; "a large sum"; "a large barn"; "a large family"; "a large number of newspapers"; "large areas of the world"
   - big 
2. Fairly large or important in effect; influential
   "played a large role in the negotiations" 
3. Ostentatiously lofty in style
   "a man given to large talk"
   - bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid 
4. Generous and understanding and tolerant
   "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"
   - big, magnanimous 
5. Conspicuous in position or importance
   "he's very large in financial circles"
   - big, prominent 
6. Having broad power and range and scope
   "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy" 
7. In an advanced stage of pregnancy
   - big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child

1. A garment size for a large person

1. At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) 
2. With the wind abaft the beam
   "a ship sailing large" 
3. In a boastful manner
   - boastfully, vauntingly, big

Derived forms: larger, larges, largest

See also: ample, astronomic, astronomical, banging, bear-sized, bigger, biggish, blown-up, bouffant, broad, Brobdingnagian, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, conspicuous, cosmic, deep, double, elephantine, enlarged, enormous, epic, extended, extensive, full-size, galactic, gargantuan, generous, giant, gigantic, ginormous [Brit], grand, great, heroic, huge, hulking, hulky, humongous, humungous, immense, important, jumbo, king-size, king-sized, large-mouthed, largeness, larger, larger-than-life, large-scale, largish, lifesize, life-size, life-sized, macro, macroscopic, macroscopical, mammoth, man-size, man-sized, massive, medium-large, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, plumping, pregnant, prodigious, puffy, queen-size, queen-sized, rangy, rhetorical, significant, sizable, size, sizeable, spacious, stupendous, super, thumping, titanic, too large, tremendous, vast, volumed, voluminous, walloping, whacking [Brit], whopping, wide, wide-ranging

Type of: size

Antonym: small

Encyclopedia: Large

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