great

Plural: greats

Noun

• A distinguished or outstanding person.
• a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
  • "he is one of the greats of American music"
• A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
• The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
• An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.

Adjective Satellite

• relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
  • "a great juicy steak"
  • "a great multitude"
  • "the great auk"
  • "a great old oak"
  • "a great ocean liner"
  • "a great delay"
• of major significance or importance
  • "a great work of art"
• remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
  • "a great crisis"
  • "had a great stake in the outcome"
• very good
  • "had a great time at the party"
• uppercase
  • "great A"
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy
  • "was great with child"

Adj

• Taking much space; large.
• Taking much space; large.
• Much, more than usual.
• Taking much space; large.
• Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
• Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
• Important, consequential.
• Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
• Pregnant; large with young; full of.
• Intimate; familiar.
• Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.
• Impressive or striking.
• Much in use; favoured.
• Of much talent or achievements.
• Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.

Intj

• Expression of gladness and content about something.
• A sarcastic inversion thereof.

Adv

• Very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

Adjective

• Very large in size, amount, or intensity.

Examples

• a dirty great smack in the face
• a great decision
• a great deed
• a great dilemma
• a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer, etc.
• a great history
• a great nature
• a great show of wealth
• a great walker
• Achieving a triple-triple on Words With Friends is truly a great accomplishment.
• Dinner was great.
• Great Scott!
• great with child
• great with hope
• great worry
• Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
• great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather
• He’s not a great one for reading.
• My three-greats grandmother.
• Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
• Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
• Only the true greats of Scrabble can consistently find bingos in difficult racks.
• Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era.
• Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened.
• What a great buffoon!

Synonyms

bang-up, big, bully, capital, corking, cracking, dandy, enceinte, expectant, gravid, groovy, heavy, keen, large, majuscule, neat, nifty, not bad, outstanding, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell, with child, -zilla, arch-, giga-, gr8, grand, grt, hyper-, macro-, mega-, over-, super-, supra-, uber-, ultra-

Antonyms

mediocre, ordinary, tiny

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