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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Huge \Huge\, adjective [Compar. {Huger}; superl. {Hugest}.] [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.] Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. ''The huge confusion.'' --Chapman. ''A huge filly.'' --Jer. Taylor. -- {Huge"ly}, adverb -- {Huge"ness}, noun
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. --Shak.
Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
huge
adjective: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {immense}, {vast}, {Brobdingnagian}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "huge": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, leviathan, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty, whopping
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