huge
Adjective Satellite
- unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.R.Inge
- "huge government spending"
- "huge country estates"
- "huge popular demand for higher education"
- "a huge wave"
Adj
- Very large.
- Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
- Very interesting, significant, or popular.
Adjective
- Extremely large in size or amount.
Examples
- Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
- In our league our coach is huge!
- Playing a seven-letter word on a triple word square resulted in a HUGE score.
- The band's next album is going to be huge.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkaras (“hill”), Old High German hōh (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English hēah (“high”). More at high.
Synonyms
Brobdingnagian, immense, vast, Daniel Lambertish, Pythonic, ample, astronomic, behemothic, big, big fat, bodacious, boxcar, broad, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, cyclopean, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titanic, tremendous, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge
Scrabble Score: 8
huge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhuge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
huge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary