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单词 huge
释义 huge
I. \ˈhyüj also ˈyüj\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English huge, hoge, modification of Old French ahuge, ahoge
: very large or extensive: as
 a. : of great size or area : gigantic, vast
  < the two ships settled … to the bottom, each with a huge hole in her hull — T.E.Cooney >
  < huge organizations like the American Express Company — Richard Joseph >
  < a huge country estate >
  < huge number of stories — G.B.Saul >
 b. : of sizable scale or degree : enormous
  < the days of the NRA when there was huge government spending — T.W.Arnold >
  < huge popular demand for higher education — V.S.Pritchett >
  < glowered … from under his heavy brows with a huge disgust — G.D.Brown >
  < turns … a dismal failure into a huge success — Jeanne Massey >
 c. : of limitless scope or character : unbounded
  < his huge personal talent — Virgil Thomson >
  < go through rubbish heaps and find rings and scissors and broken noses buried in the huge past — Virginia Woolf >
  < huge sense of destiny — Henry Wallace >
Synonyms:
 vast, immense, enormous, elephantine, mammoth, giant, gigantic, gigantean, colossal, gargantuan, herculean, cyclopean, titanic, brobdingnagian: huge is a rather general term indicating extreme largeness, usually in size, bulk, or capacity
  < an enormous volume of heavy, inky vapor, coiling and pouring upward in a huge and ebony cumulus cloud — H.G.Wells >
  < the Texan question and Mexican War made huge annexations of Southwestern territory certain — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager >
  vast denotes extreme largeness or broadness, especially of extent or range
  < the Great Valley of California, a vast elliptical bowl averaging 50 miles in width and more than 400 miles long — American Guide Series: California >
  < consider the vast varieties of religions ancient and modern — M.R.Cohen >
  immense suggests size far in excess of ordinary measurements or accustomed concepts
  < an immense quill, plucked from a distended albatross' wing — Herman Melville >
  < found the balloon at an immense height indeed, and the earth's convexity had now become strikingly manifest — E.A.Poe >
  < the immense waste of war — D.W.Brogan >
  enormous also indicates a size or degree exceeding accustomed bounds or norms
  < heavy wagons, enormous loads, scarcely any less than three tons — American Guide Series: California >
  < the princes of the Renascence lavished upon private luxury and display enormous amounts of money — Lewis Mumford >
  elephantine suggests the cumbersome or ponderous largeness of the elephant
  < similar elephantine bones were being displayed … as relics of the “giants” mentioned in the Bible — R.W.Murray >
  < elephantine grain elevators — American Guide Series: New York >
  mammoth is similar to elephantine
  < her parties were … mammoth — she rarely invited fewer than 100 people — Time >
  < a mammoth cyclotron — G.F.Whicher >
  giant indicates unusual size or scope
  < loaded with a typical unit of giant industrial equipment, the new car weighs more than a million pounds — Pa. Railroad Annual Report >
  < his giant intellect >
  gigantic and the less common gigantean are close synonyms of giant, perhaps more likely to be used in metaphorical extensions
  < gigantic jewels that a hundred Negroes could not carry — G.K.Chesterton >
  < a justice of the Supreme Court … however gigantic his learning and his juridic rectitude — H.L.Mencken >
  colossal may suggest vast proportion
  < three sets of colossal figures of men and animals … the largest man is 167 feet long — American Guide Series: California >
  < the sun blazed down … the heat was colossal — C.S.Forester >
  gargantuan suggests the hugeness of Rabelais's Gargantua and is often used in reference to appetites and similar physical matters
  < gargantuan breakfasts … pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, liver and bacon, ham and eggs, beef stew — Edna Ferber >
  herculean suggests the superhuman power of the Greek hero Hercules or the superhuman difficulties of his famous labors
  < a Herculean task confronted them. Some 1700 miles of track had to be laid through a wilderness — Allan Nevins and H.S.Commager >
  cyclopean suggests the superhuman size and strength of the Cyclops of Greek mythology
  < of cyclopean masonry, consisting of very large blocks of stone — Scientific American >
  titanic suggests colossal size and, often, primitive earth-shaking strength
  < titanic water fronds speedily choked both those rivers — H.G.Wells >
  < it was his titanic energy that broke the fetters of medievalism — M.R.Cohen >
  brobdingnagian suggests the hugeness of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels
  < a brand-new Brobdingnagian hotel — Benjamin D'Israeli >
II. adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from huge, hoge, adjective
: hugely
 < the sky was swelling huge with the last dusk — John Dos Passos >
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