large

Plural: larges

Noun

• Generosity or liberality in bestowing gifts or favors.
• a garment size for a large person
• An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
• Liberality, generosity.
• A thousand dollars/pounds.
• One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
• An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
• One who fits an item of that size.

Adjective

• Of considerable or relatively great extent, size, or quantity.
• above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
  • "a large city"
  • "a large sum"
  • "a big (or large) barn"
  • "a large family"
  • "a large number of newspapers"
  • "large areas of the world"

Adjective Satellite

• fairly large or important in effect; influential
  • "played a large role in the negotiations"
• ostentatiously lofty in style
  • "a man given to large talk"
• generous and understanding and tolerant
  • "a large and generous spirit"
  • "a large heart"
• conspicuous in position or importance
  • "he's very large in financial circles"
• having broad power and range and scope
  • "taking the large view"
  • "a large effect"
  • "a large sympathy"
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy

Adverb

• at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
• with the wind abaft the beam
  • "a ship sailing large"
• in a boastful manner

Adj

• Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
• That is large (the manufactured size).
• Abundant; ample.
• Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
• Free; unencumbered.
• Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
• Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Adv

• Before the wind.

Examples

• A LARGE tile distribution often dictates a Scrabble player’s opening strategy.
• Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
• One small coffee and two larges, please.
• Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
• Showing his LARGE, he allowed his Words With Friends opponent a take-back after a clear misplay.

Synonyms

big, boastfully, bombastic, declamatory, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, magnanimous, orotund, prominent, tumid, turgid, vauntingly, with child, Brobdingnagian, Daniel Lambertish, L, Pythonic, ample, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, bodacious, boxcar, broad, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, cyclopean, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, jumbo, largeish, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, maxima, mega-, mickle, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, octuple whole note, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stour, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titanic, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge

Antonyms

little, small, minuscule, tiny

Related Words

size, LARGELY

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