 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
big
adjective
1: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or
extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a
large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family";
"big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number
of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large
areas of the world" [syn: {large}] [ant: {small}, {small}]
2: significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
3: of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb
was a very big decision"; "a momentous event" [syn: {momentous}]
4: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the
movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in
financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: {large}, {prominent}]
5: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
(or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: {bad}]
6: loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
7: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
[syn: {big(a)}, {heavy(a)}]
8: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
woman" [syn: {adult}, {full-grown}, {fully grown}, {grown},
{grownup}]
9: marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
10: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a
swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: {swelled},
{vainglorious}]
11: older brother or sister; "big sister" [syn: {big(a)}, {elder},
{older}] [ant: {little(a)}]
12: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: {boastful}, {braggart(a)},
{bragging(a)}, {braggy}, {cock-a-hoop}, {crowing}, {self-aggrandizing},
{self-aggrandising}]
13: generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough
to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so
forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large
heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: {large}, {magnanimous}]
14: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded
host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is
loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a
munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
[syn: {bighearted}, {bounteous}, {bountiful}, {freehanded},
{handsome}, {giving}, {liberal}, {openhanded}]
15: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: {big(p)}, {enceinte}, {expectant},
{gravid}, {great(p)}, {large(p)}, {heavy(p)}, {with
child(p)}]
adverb
1: extremely well; "his performance went over big"
2: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: {boastfully},
{vauntingly}, {large}]
3: on a grand scale; "think big" [ant: {small}]
4: in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
[also: {biggest}, {bigger}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Big \Big\ (b[i^]g), adjective [Compar. {Bigger}; superl. {Biggest}.]
[Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant,
with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly,
Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent,
excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build,
akin to E. be.]
1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of
great size; large. ''He's too big to go in there.''
--Shak.
2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth
or produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
--Addison.
3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,
distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a
big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied
to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --Jer.
Taylor.
Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as,
big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
{To talk big}, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
I talked big to them at first. --De Foe.
Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, noun [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg,
Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.)
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
''Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now
with bigg.'' --New English
Dict.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, verb (used with an object) [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to
inhabit, to build, b?a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make
ready. See {Boor}, and {Bound}.]
To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] --Sir W. Scott.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "big":
adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash,
awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy,
big cheese, big noise, big shot, big-league, big-name, big-time,
bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull,
bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, cloyed,
clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential,
considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned,
deified, distended, domineering, double-barreled, earthshaking,
elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted,
excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely,
fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified,
glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun,
great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown-up, handsome,
haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic,
high, high and mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed,
high-minded, high-nosed, high-powered, high-sounding,
high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hugely,
hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important,
imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large-scale, largehearted,
liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man-sized,
marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful,
mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble-minded, nubile,
numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded,
overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient,
patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse-proud, replete,
roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied,
self-important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck-up,
stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen,
tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage,
voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world-shaking
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
\big
Prefix of several {LaTeX} commands implying a larger
symbol. See the command without "big". Often used to convert
a {dyadic} operator into a function which operates on a set.
E.g. \sqcup, \bigsqcup.
(1995-02-03)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
BIG
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