单词 | huge |
释义 | huge I. a. < 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. < 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. < 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: < 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. < the sky was swelling huge with the last dusk — John Dos Passos > |
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