 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
enormous
adjective: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power
or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses";
"tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in
human experience; that a whole civilization should be
dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took
off with a tremendous noise" [syn: {tremendous}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enormous \E*nor"mous\, adjective [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e
out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See {Normal}.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due
proportion; inordinate; abnormal. ''Enormous bliss.''
--Milton. ''This enormous state.'' --Shak. ''The hoop's
enormous size.'' --Jenyns.
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
--Milton.
2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as,
an enormous crime.
That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
--Bale.
Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious;
monstrous.
Usage: -- {Enormous}, {Immense}, {Excessive}. We speak of a
thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law
of existence or far exceeds its proper average or
standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in
its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous
strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense
expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable
quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is
beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in
an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an
immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense.
''Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately
excessive rigor.'' --V. Knox. ''Complaisance becomes
servitude when it is excessive.'' --La Rochefoucauld
(Trans).
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "enormous":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, abysmal, amplitudinous,
arrant, astronomic, astronomical, atrocious, awesome, awful, base,
beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, boundless, brutal, bulky,
colossal, contemptible, cosmic, deplorable, despicable, detestable,
dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, elephantine, epic,
exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant,
extreme, fabulous, fancy, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome,
galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gluttonous,
grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, heroic, high, horrible, horrid,
huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable, immense, immoderate,
incontinent, infamous, infinite, inordinate, intemperate, jumbo,
king-size, lamentable, large, loathsome, lousy, mammoth, massive,
massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, nasty,
nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outsize, overbig,
overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch,
overweening, pitiable, pitiful, prodigious, profound, rank,
regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous,
schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sizable,
sordid, spacious, squalid, steep, stiff, stupendous, terrible,
titanic, too bad, too much, towering, tremendous, unbridled,
unclean, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained, vast,
vile, villainous, voluminous, weighty, woeful, worst, worthless,
wretched
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