massiveadjective
uk/ˈmæs.ɪv/us/ˈmæs.ɪv/B2 very large in size, amount, or number:
They have a massive house.
She died after taking a massive overdose of drugs.
If the drought continues, deaths will occur on a massive scale.
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- The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
- Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
- The fortifications of the castle were massive and impenetrable.
- Freakish weather conditions have caused massive traffic hold-ups in the area.
- Only massive changes in government policies will prevent the peso going into free fall .
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- mountainous
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- terrific
- thumping
- walloping
- yawning
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massively
adverb uk/ˈmæs.ɪv.li/us/ˈmæs.ɪv.li/
The film is a massively (= very) ambitious project.
massiveness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈmæs.ɪv.nəs/us/ˈmæs.ɪv.nəs/