large (a)
big#1 (a)

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type a
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def above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
examples a large city
set out for the big city
a large sum
a big (or large) barn
a large family
big businesses
a big expenditure
a large number of newspapers
a big group of scientists
large areas of the world
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Attribute size
Derivationally related form big → bigness
Antonym big → little
Derivationally related form large → large; large → largeness
Antonym large → small
Similar to ample, sizable, sizeable; astronomic, astronomical, galactic; bear-sized; bigger, larger; biggish, largish; blown-up, enlarged; bouffant, puffy; broad, spacious, wide; bulky; capacious; colossal, prodigious, stupendous; deep; double; enormous, tremendous; cosmic; elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo; epic, heroic, larger-than-life; extensive, extended; gigantic, mammoth; great; grand; huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian; hulking, hulky; humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping; king-size, king-sized; large-mouthed; large-scale; large-scale; life-size, lifesize, life-sized, full-size; macroscopic, macroscopical; macro; man-sized; massive, monolithic, monumental; massive; medium-large; monstrous; mountainous; outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized; overlarge, too large; plumping; queen-size, queen-sized; rangy; super; titanic; volumed; voluminous; whacking; wide-ranging
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Also see considerable; tall
Similar to ample, sizable, sizeable; astronomic, astronomical, galactic; bear-sized; bigger, larger; biggish, largish; blown-up, enlarged; bouffant, puffy; broad, spacious, wide; bulky; capacious; colossal, prodigious, stupendous; deep; double; enormous, tremendous; cosmic; elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo; epic, heroic, larger-than-life; extensive, extended; gigantic, mammoth; great; grand; huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian; hulking, hulky; humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping; king-size, king-sized; large-mouthed; large-scale; large-scale; life-size, lifesize, life-sized, full-size; macroscopic, macroscopical; macro; man-sized; massive, monolithic, monumental; massive; medium-large; monstrous; mountainous; outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized; overlarge, too large; plumping; queen-size, queen-sized; rangy; super; titanic; volumed; voluminous; whacking; wide-ranging
Antonym little → big
Antonym small → large
Derivationally related form large → large; largeness → large
Attribute size
Derivationally related form bigness → big

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