big

Plural: bigs

Adjective

• Of considerable size, extent, or importance.
• above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
  • "set out for the big city"
  • "a big (or large) barn"
  • "big businesses"
  • "a big expenditure"
  • "a big group of scientists"

Adjective Satellite

• significant
  • "graduation was a big day in his life"
• very intense
  • "in a big rage"
  • "had a big (or bad) shock"
• loud and firm
  • "a big voice"
  • "big bold piano sounds"
• conspicuous in position or importance
  • "a big figure in the movement"
  • "big man on campus"
• prodigious
  • "big spender"
  • "big eater"
• exhibiting self-importance
  • "big talk"
• feeling self-importance
  • "too big for his britches"
• (of animals) fully developed
• marked by intense physical force
  • "a big wind"
• generous and understanding and tolerant
  • "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"
  • "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"
• given or giving freely
  • "was a big tipper"
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy
  • "was big with child"

Adverb

• extremely well
  • "his performance went over big"
• in a boastful manner
  • "he talked big all evening"
• on a grand scale
  • "think big"
• in a major way
  • "the play failed big at the box office"

Adj

• Of great size, large.
• Of great size, large.
• Fat.
• Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Specifically, big-breasted.
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Having a large penis.
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
• Adult; (of a child) older.
• Adult; (of a child) older.
• Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
• Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
• Important or significant.
• Popular.
• Populous.
• Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
• Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
• Enthusiastic (about).

Adv

• In a loud manner.
• In a boasting manner.
• In a large amount or to a large extent.
• In a large amount or to a large extent.
• (modifying a preposition)
• On a large scale, expansively.
• Hard; with great force.

Noun

• An important or influential person or organization.
• Someone or something that is large in stature
• An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
• The big leagues, big time.
• An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
• The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
• One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

Verb

• To inhabit; occupy.
• To locate oneself.
• To build; erect; fashion.
• To dwell; have a dwelling.

Examples

• big money
• Big Science
• Big Tech, Big Steel
• Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
• Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
• Gosh, she is big!
• He aimed for a BIG score on his next turn, hoping for a bingo.
• He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
• He won big betting on the croquet championship.
• He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
• I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
• I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
• I'm the shortest man on the team but in the gym shower everyone can see that I'm also the biggest.
• I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
• I've been lifting weights for a full year now, but I'm finally getting big.
• Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
• Playing ’BIG’ on a double-letter score might not be a bingo, but it’s still decent.
• She did it all on her own like a big girl.
• She was big with child.
• That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
• That's very big of you; thank you!
• There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
• We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
• What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
• Why are you so enthusiastic about putting cantaloupe in your smoothie? Did Big Melon buy you off? [humorous]
• You are a big liar.  Why are you in such a big hurry?
• You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Synonyms

adult, bad, bighearted, boastful, boastfully, bounteous, bountiful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, enceinte, expectant, freehanded, full-grown, fully grown, giving, gravid, great, grown, grownup, handsome, heavy, large, liberal, magnanimous, openhanded, prominent, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing, swelled, vainglorious, vauntingly, with child, ;, Brobdingnagian, Daniel Lambertish, Pythonic, Rubenesque, all the rage, ample, animated, ardent, astronomic, avid, bathykolpian, beer-bellied, behemothic, big, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], big fat, big leagues, big shot, big-breasted, bigly, bodacious, boobilicious, bosomy, boxcar, breasty, broad, bubbly, bulky, busty, buxom, carrying, central, chesty, child-great, chubby, chunky, colossal, commodious, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, curvy, cyclopean, delicate, developed, eager, earnest, eating for two, ebullient, elephantic, elephantine, embonpoint, energetic, enormous, enthusiastic, epochful, essential, excited, exhilarated, expansive, expecting, extraordinary, fanatic, fanatical, fat, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, fertilized, fervent, fervid, feverish, flabby, fleshy, full, full-bosomed, full-figured, full-throated, fulsome, gargantuan, gassed, geeked, generous, gestating, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, grand, great big, greatly, grown up, grown-ass, gung ho, have a bun in the oven, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hench, high on the totem pole, high-spirited, historic, honkin', hormonal, huge, hugely, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, impassioned, in a family way, in demand, in the club, in the pudding club, innegligible, juiced, jumbo, keen, key, knocked up, largely, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, life-or-death, lit up, lively, long, love-handled, macromastic, mad, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, massively, mastodonic, mature, meaningful, meaty, mega-, monstrous, monumental, motivated, mountainous, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outsized, outstanding, overlarge, overnourished, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, paramount, passionate, paunchy, pertinent, pleasantly plump, plump, plus-size, podgy, portly, potbellied, preg, preggers, preggie, preggo, pregnant, pregs, prodigious, pudgy, pupped, pyramidal, quick, racktacular, racktastic, raring, relevant, remarkable, rip-roaring, roly-poly, roomy, rotund, salient, significant, sizeable, sonsy, souped-up, spacious, stacked, stimulated, stonking, stour, stupendous, super-, supersized, swagbellied, tall, thick, thrilled, titanic, top-heavy, torrid, tremendous, tubby, unignorable, up the duff, up the kyte, up the spout, up the stick, up the stump, valuable, vast, vehement, vibrant, vital, vivacious, voluminous, weighty, well liked, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-stacked, well-upholstered, whopping, wide, wild, worked up, wrought-up, yuge, zealous, zestful

Antonyms

little, small, miniature, minuscule, minute, tiny, young

Anagrams of big