Big

Definition: Big

Big

Adjective

1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "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".

2. (informal) "graduation was a big day in his life".

3. Of very great significance "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event".

4. Conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen".

5. Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm".

6. Loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds".

7. Prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor".

8. (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman".

9. Marked by intense physical force; "a big wind".

10. : feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride".

11. : older brother or sister; "big sister".

12. : exhibiting self-importance; "big talk".

13. : generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies".

14. : given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather".

15. : in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child".

Adverb

1. Extremely well; "his performance went over big".

2. In a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening".

3. On a grand scale; "think big".

4. In a major way; "the play failed big at the box office".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "big" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BIG

BIG

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Big

Expansion

Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.

Greatness

Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.

Size

Adjective: large, big; great; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.

Crosswords: Big

Dutch (piglet, young of a wild boar), Scottish (the little folks, the young).

We need to schedule more events where somebody gives me a really big fish (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Why don't you tell me my dick is as big as Stifler's (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Listen to me, you great big bumble-headed bamboo (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

What's the big idea (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Living in the big machine now (Big Machine; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Big me to talk about it (Big Me; performing artist: The Foo Fighters)

'Cos you're big enough (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

I was a fool with tha big boys breaking all tha rules (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

I'm trying to get up that great big hill of hope (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

West Virginia: One Big Happy Family ... Really! (references; author: unknown)

I believe in the Big Bang theory. God spoke and BANG!, it was. (references; author: unknown)

Why do gorillas have big nostrils?  Because they have big fingers. (references; author: unknown)

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him. (references; author: unknown)

Big doesn't necessarily mean better.. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. (references; author: unknown)

A big bug bit a bold bald bear, and the bold bald bear bled blood badly. (references; author: unknown)

Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar. (references; author: unknown)

Big ben blew big blue bubbles. (references; author: unknown)

Big Billy, who had a big belly was also a big bully. (references; author: unknown)

Brad's big black bath brush broke. (references; author: unknown)

Big Spender (2003)

The Big Blue Marble (1974)

Big Bad Mama (1974)

The Big House Ain't a Home (1974)

Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974)

Big Shot (performing artist: The Bonzo Dog Band)

Big Love (performing artist: Fleetwood Mac)

BIG MAN IN TOWN  (performing artist: Four Seasons )

Big Machine (performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Big Pimpin' (performing artist: Jay-Z)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• BIG Bank Gdanski S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Big Buck Brewery & Steakhouse, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Big C Supercenter Public Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Big City Radio, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Big Dog Holdings, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine (reference)

• Shed Antler Records of North American Big Game: Record Book for the Recognition of North America's Big Game Shed Antlers (reference)

• Hunting Big Game in North America: Outdoor Life's Experts Reveal Their Secrets for Taking Trophy Antlered, Horned & Dangerous Game (reference)

• Hoofs, Claws, and Antlers: The Story of American Big Game Animals (reference)

• Great Big Beautiful Doll: The Anna Nicole Smith Story (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Big (reference)

• Big Book (reference)

• Big Frame (reference)

• Big Muddy (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Fat Liar (reference)

• Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Musical Movie (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• You're a Big Girl Now [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Crayola CRD Big Viewfinder Customizable 35mm Camera (reference)

• Fuji Big Viewfinder 60AF Date 35mm Camera (reference)

• Cabela's Big Game Hunter (reference)

• Doug's Big Game (reference)

• Clifford The Big Red Dog Thinking Adventures (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Decorative Pillow - Koala Baby Big And Little (reference)

• Roundabout Convertible Car Seat - Big Cat (reference)

• Charcoal Companion 21-Inch Big Head Grill Brush with Rosewood Handle (reference)

• George Foreman GR80 Big George Rotisserie (reference)

• Taylor Classic Style Big Digit Kitchen Timer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Big brown bat, Eptescius fureus. Credit: CDC.

Saharan Dust Plume as Big as Spain. Credit: NASA.

Schmitt Next to Big Boulder. Credit: NASA.

Big Joe Ready for Launch at Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA.

Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead ... Credit: NASA.

The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. ... Credit: NASA.

Water fall on big island of Hawaii. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Trucks and the Depression make the big parties possible Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Big Bay Lighthouse. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Clouds over the Big Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones, to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession, which should punish offenders. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And soon Bruno went into the hall, and rang the big bell

Her head is big, as you see.

Nasty Roche had big hands

He tilted it and took three big swallows

I gave him two purses of two hundred sprugs each, and promised, when we arrived in England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep big with young

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You will play a big role in this part of your child's treatment. (references)

Successful results would represent a big step toward eradicating shingles. (references)

The big brown bat is found throughout most of the United States and Canada. (references)

Business

Privacy is a big concern. (references)

The cellular industry has been a big success in this country. (references)

Illiteracy is considered a big problem amongst youths and adults. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

He also called a September 16 ecumenical ceremony in the Rabat cathedral "a big sin" for Muslims and stated that "the notion of dialogue among the three monotheistic religions is a Zionist idea." Kettan's uncensored criticism attacked the King both as the political and religious leader of the country. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

Kuwait is a very big small town. (references)

South Africa

Security on the Internet is still a big issue. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Most sectors of the Indian economy are now open to foreign investors, except for a few big public sectors such as railways, atomic energy, and hydro-power. (references)

URUGUAY

A law allowing foreign companies to offer insurance, except work-related injury, coverage in Uruguay was passed in October 1993, although the former monopoly provider still maintains a big market share and regulation of the insurance sector is weak. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

The big banks are represented in all major financial centers abroad. (references)

Travel

Maldives

Only a few of the islands are big enough to support automobiles. (references)

Taiwan

Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Malaysian, Korean and Japanese food are all big favorites with the city's residents, with the latter two being particularly popular. (references)

Guatemala

For big ticket items, vendors in Miami and other U.S. cities offer competition for local vendors, because Guatemalan buyers travel frequently to the United States and will import products directly if the expected savings is significant. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "big": a big baby ♦ a big fellow ♦ a big gun ♦ a big hit ♦ a big liar ♦ a big noise ♦ a big spread ♦ a big wheel ♦ a heart as big as all outdoors sympathy ♦ as big as a barndoor ♦ be a big mouth ♦ big animal ♦ Big Apple ♦ big Arm ♦ big bag ♦ big bag of pages ♦ big band ♦ big bang ♦ big bang theory ♦ big Bar ♦ big basket ♦ big Bear City ♦ big Bear Lake ♦ big Beaver ♦ big bedbug ♦ big bellied ♦ big belly ♦ big ben ♦ big Bend ♦ big Bend Nationa ♦ big Bend National Park ♦ Big Bend State ♦ big bertha ♦ big Bill Haywood ♦ big Bill Tilden ♦ big blue ♦ Big Board ♦ big boy ♦ big brother ♦ big brown bat ♦ big bruiser ♦ big bug ♦ big burly fellow ♦ big business ♦ big businessman ♦ big C ♦ big Cabin ♦ big cat ♦ big change ♦ big cheese ♦ big chief ♦ big Chimney ♦ big Clifty ♦ big close up ♦ big Coppitt Key ♦ big Cove ♦ big Cove Tannery ♦ big Creek ♦ big deal ♦ big deal! ♦ big Delta ♦ big difference ♦ big dipper ♦ big drop in prices ♦ big earners ♦ big eater ♦ big end ♦ big expectation ♦ big Falls ♦ big fat fellow ♦ big feed ♦ big finger ♦ big fire ♦ big firm ♦ big Flat ♦ big Flats ♦ big Flats Airport ♦ big flower ♦ big foot ♦ big frog ♦ big game ♦ big game hunting ♦ big gorilla ♦ big Gray Wall ♦ big gun ♦ big hand ♦ big head ♦ big heart ♦ big hearted ♦ big Horn County ♦ big iron ♦ big Island ♦ big jaw ♦ big job ♦ big Lake ♦ big landowner ♦ big Laurel ♦ big league ♦ big leaguer ♦ big man ♦ big marigold. Additional references.

Beginning with "big": big-alphabet, Big-baby, big-balled, big-band, big-bang, big-bang theory, big-bank, big-beaked, Big-bellied, big-billed, big-block, big-bloody-hearted, big-bodied, big-boned, big-boobed, big-boot, big-bosomed, big-boys, big-brand, big-breasted, big-brimmed, big-buck, big-bucks, big-bud, big-bud hickory, big-budge, big-budget, big-built, big-business, big-busted, big-buttoned, big-capacity, big-car, big-cat, big-cheese, big-chested, big-city, big-cliffs, big-cone douglas fir, big-cone spruce, big-crested, big-deal, big-dealer, big-displacement, big-dog, big-drum, big-eared, big-eared bat, big-eaters, big-end, big-endian, Big-endians, big-engined, big-eye mackerel, big-eyed, big-eyed mackerel, big-eyed scad, big-eyes, Big-fin-reef-squid, big-fish, big-foot, big-footed, big-four, big-framed, big-game, big-gastrin, big-gig, big-gutted, big-haired, big-hall, big-hand, big-head, big-headed, big-headedness, big-heads, big-hearted, big-hit, big-hitters, big-hitting, big-hoofed, big-horsepower, BIG-LAN, big-leaf maple, big-league, big-manufacturer, big-match, big-money, Big-mouth, big-mouthed, big-mouthed buffalofish, big-muscled, big-name, big-navy, big-nosed, Big-o, big-occasion, big-production, big-punching, big-pupilled, big-race, big-ribbed, big-root, big-salary, big-scale, big-science, big-screen, big-screened, big-selling, big-serving, big-shot, big-shots, big-shouldered, big-sisterly, big-snouted, big-spenders, big-spending, big-stage, big-step, big-studio, big-suited, big-tailed, big-thighed, big-ticket, big-time, big-timer, big-titted, big-toe, big-toothed aspen, big-top, big-town, big-tree plum, big-two, big-'un, big-uns, big-wall, big-wave, big-wheeled, big-wig, Big-wigged, big-wigs.

Ending with "big": ex-big, post-big, pre-big.

Containing "big": anti-big-business, bang-the-big-bass-drum, finish-'im-off-rip-'is-guts-out-fump-'im-in-the-belly-ya-big-ugly-bag-of-chisels-yer-tattoo'd-dick'ead, Groveland-Big Oak Flat, make-it-big-quick, no-big-deal, pre-big-bang, pretty-face-and-big-tits-to-sell-the-record, we-come-from-place-bilong-far-on-big-bird-that-doesn't-go-flap.

Afrikaans

groot (great, large). (various references)

Albanian

bujar (bounteous, bountiful, disinterested, free-handed, generous, gentle, gentlemanlike, good, good hearted, handsome, lavish, liberal, nobleman, open handed, princely, unselfish), me rëndësi (prominent, vastly), madh (great, large), i rritur (adult, full grown, grown up), i plotë (all out, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), i madh (bally, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i lartë (altisonant, considerable, elevated, eminent, exalted, first, high, high pitched, higher, lofty, overhead, paramount, pre eminent, rank, soaring, sonorous, stalwart, towering). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبير (bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏هام (considerable, earnest, expatiate, historic, material, significant, some, worthy), ‏حبلي (enceinte, gravid, pregnant, quick), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крупен, голям (almighty, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), едър (bouncing, burly, coarse, full, gross, husky, large, massive, massy, overblown, portly, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping). (various references)

Chinese 

大 (deep, doctor, eldest, great, huge, large, major, oldest, wide). (various references)

Czech

velký (considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, great, gross, hearty, heavy, high, intense, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide). (various references)

Danish

stor (great, large). (various references)

Dutch

groot (adult, extensive, full-grown, great, lanky, large, of high stature, spacious, tall, vast, wide). (various references)

Esperanto

granda (great, large). (various references)

Faeroese

stórur (great, large). (various references)

Farsi 

سترک (Boisterous), ستبر (Burly, Gross, Robust, Stalwart, Stout, Sturdy, Thick), ادم برجسته , ابستن (Anticipant, Expectant, Great, Heavy, Impregnant, Pergnant), دارای شکم برامده , بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous), باعظمت (Imperial, Majestic). (various references)

Finnish

iso (great, large). (various references)

French

grand, gros. (various references)

Frisian

grut (considerable, great, large, sizable). (various references)

German

groß (bigly, capital, capitalized, considerable, copious, full, grand, great, grievous, keen, large, large scale, large-capacity, largely, lengthy, long, major, near, sharp, sizable, sizably, tall, upper case, wide), wichtig (great, important, momentous, momentously, necessary, prominent, relevant, serious, significant, vitally, weightily, weighty), schwer (bad, badly, burdensome, critically, deeply, difficult, full, grave, gravely, grievous, hard, heavenly, heavily, heavy, hefty, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, lumbering, onerous, powerful, rich, serious, seriously, severe, slow, solid, sorely, strong, tough, weighty). (various references)

Greek 

μέγασ (broad, grand, great, high, large), μεγάλοσ (great, large, sizable, sizeable, whopping), μεγάλος (grand, great, grown, grown up, large, long), μεγαλόσωμοσ (burly, husky), χονδρόσ (beefy, blocky, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, stubbed, thick, thickset), αξιόλογοσ (meritorious, notable). (various references)

Guarani

guasu. (various references)

Hawaiian

madh (great, large). (various references)

Hebrew 

גדול (augmentation, breed, breeding, development, grand, great, growth, high, increment, large, mighty, raising, step up, upbringing, whopping). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy (bang, blow-out, burly, by the skin of one's teeth, charger, circumstantiality, cunning, dining hall, drag, expansive, folding money, glib, grand, great, gross, have a good wind, have a long way to go, have big ideas, haymaker, high, huge, kick in the teeth, large, massive, napoleon, pile, power, redundancy, roomy, saloon, spaciousness, spread, stack, swag-belly, the betting ran high, throaty, to buy at high rate, to delineate, to drink deep, to go the pace, to hit the headlines, to kick up a riot, to make much of sg, to make much of sy, to make the headlines, to raise cain, to set store by sg, to shoe-horn, to the great chagrin of sy), terjedelmes (ample, broad, bulky, expanded, expansive, extensive, great, large, sizable, spacious, voluminous). (various references)

Icelandic

stór (great, large), mikill (great, large). (various references)

Indonesian

bongsor (oversized), besar (august, broad, fabulous, great, huge, large), gede (large), gadang (large), akbar (exalted, great). (various references)

Irish

mór (large). (various references)

Italian

grande (adult, grand, great, grown up, heavy, heavyset, high, large, major, strong, tall, wide), grosso (bold, bouncing, corpulent, fat, great, gross, heavy, important, large, lumping, portly, thick, thickly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ビタミン剤 (big band, big bang, Big Ben, big business, big card, Big Egg, big event, big science, big screen, bit, bitmap, BITNET, important news, vitamin pills, Vitarice), 巨なる (great, large), 巨い (great, large), 巨 (great, large), 大型 (jumbo, large, large scale), 大きい　 (great, large), 大きい (great, large), 大き (large). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおがた (jumbo, large, large scale, large size), おおきい (great, large), おおいなる (great, large), おおき (large), ビッグ , きょ (cry, great, large, pride, squatting with legs outstretched), こ (arc, business, child, counter for houses, counter for mil. units, crime, fault, great, individual, large, old, price, selling, sin, the late, the young of animals). (various references)

Korean 

큰 (Large). (various references)

Malay

besar (great, large), raya (great, large). (various references)

Manx

thollee (athletic, beefy, brawny, burly, hefty, robust, stocky, strapping, strong bodied, well-built), mooarey (elder), mooar (bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful, tall), liauyr (drawn out, far-reaching, flowing of hair, lengthy, long, long-distance, prolix, sustained, tall, vermiform, wordy), ard (compass point, direction, district, fell, height, high, high place, incline, loud, pole, region, tall, towering). (various references)

Norwegian

stor (great, large). (various references)

Papiamen

grandi (great, large). (various references)

Pig Latin

igbay.(various references)

Polish

duży (great, large). (various references)

Portuguese

grande (all-embracing, almighty, considerable, decuman, goodly, grand, great, high, large, much, roomy, rousing, spacious, substantial, swingeing, vast, walloping, wide). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

grandes. (various references)

Romanian

mare (acred, adult, ample, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Russian 

большой (builky, bulky, chuckle, chunking, clunky, considerable, feature length, goodly, grand, great, gross, healthy, high, large, major, man-sized, walloping). (various references)

Scottish

mór (great, important, large, of high, rendered in Eng. `Sarah' and `Marion';, tall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veliki (bulky, crushing, great, knar, large, large scale, man-sized, resounding), velik (grand, jumbo, tall), krupan (burly, husky, large, man-sized, massive, massy, walloping), astronomski (astronomic, astronomical). (various references)

Slovene

veliko. (various references)

Spanish

grande (ample, appreciable, arch, bull, colossal, commodious, gigantic, grandee, great, hefty, high, large, lively, lusty, sizable, sizeable, sore, spanking, tall, unqualified, walloping, wide, widespread, yeoman), gran (great, heavyset, large, tall). (various references)

Sranan

bigi (great, large), grofu (great, large). (various references)

Swahili

kubwa (great, important, large, serious). (various references)

Swedish

stor (ample, capital, grand, great, heavy, high, large, large scale, large-sized, rich, wide). (various references)

Tagalog

malaki (great, large), dakilà (great, large). (various references)

Tahitian

rahi. (various references)

Thai

ใหญ่ (fat, large), ใจกว้าง (broad-minded, great-hearted, large-minded, liberal), เติบโตแล้ว, ประสบความสำเร็จ, ขี้คุย (tall), มีพลังมาก, มีชื่อ. (various references)

Turkish

büyük (almighty, ample, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide). (various references)

Turkmen 

belent (majestic, tall), ullakan (grownup, heavy), зiюik (large, thick). (various references)

Ukrainian

широкий (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, sweeping, vast, wide), крупний (coarse), гучний (altisonant, boffo, deep-mouthed, exclamatory, loud, orotund, reverberating, spoken, vocal, wild), великий (bulky, bumping, capital, copious, goodly, great, king size, large, out, vast), важливий (consequential, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, interesting, momentous, newsworthy, purposeful, serious, weighty), високий (elevated, high, high-flown, long, overhead, tall, towering), благородний (chivalrous, genteel, high minded, high-hearted, hightoned, ingenuous, knightly, noble, noble-minded, superb, whole-souled), повний (absolute, all out, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole), дорослий (adult, full blown, full grown, grown, grown up, marriageable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

với vẻ quan trọng huênh hoang khoác lác, to (beamy, heavy, loud, sizable, sizeable, swingeing, vastly, voluminous), tự phụ tự mãn; làm bộ làm tịch, rộng lượng huênh hoang, ra vẻ quan trọng, phóng khoáng (open, open-minded, wide), lớn bụng to, có mang (enceinte, interesting), có chửa quan trọng hào hiệp. (various references)

Welsh

mawr (great, large). (various references)

Xhosa

mbayimbayi (A big gun). (various references)

Yucatec

nuuk (great, large), nohoch (great, large). (various references)

capax, grandis, magna, magnae, magnam, magnamque, magnaque, magnarum, magnarumque, magnas, magne, magni, magnis, magno, magnorum, magnos, magnum, magnus, maior, maiora, maiore, maiorem, maiores, maioresque, maiori, maioribus, maioris, maiorque, maiorum, maius, maxima, maximam, maximas, maxime, maximeque, maximi, maximis, maximo, maximum, maximus, prolixae, prolixior, prolixius. (various references)

gros. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "big": bigamies, bigamist, bigamists, bigamous, bigamously, bigamy, bigarade, bigarades, bigaroon, bigaroons, bigeminal, bigeminies, bigeminy, bigeneric, bigeye, bigeyes, bigfeet, bigfoot, bigfoots, bigger, biggest, biggety, biggie, biggies, biggin, bigging, biggings, biggins, biggish, biggity, bighead, bigheaded, bigheads, bighearted, bigheartedly, bigheartedness, bigheartednesses, bighorn, bighorns, bight, bighted, bighting, bights, bigly, bigmouth, bigmouthed, bigmouths, bigness, bignesses, bignonia, bignonias. (additional references)

Words ending with "big": overbig. (additional references)

Words containing "big": abigail, abigails, ambiguities, ambiguity, ambiguous, ambiguously, ambiguousness, ambiguousnesses, disambiguate, disambiguated, disambiguates, disambiguating, disambiguation, disambiguations, nonambiguous, rubigo, rubigos, unambiguous, unambiguously, verbigeration, verbigerations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Big" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abiog, aig, bacg, bagg, bago, bahg, baig, baij, bamg, baug, bawg, bcig, bdg, beag, beeg, beigy, belg, bfg, bg, bgm, bgp, bhi, Biagi, bic, Bif, Biga, Bigah, bigga, bigh, bigi, Bigo, bigs, Bih, Bii, bij, biji, bilg, bilgh, bip, biq, bir, birg, Biu, biv, biw, bix, biy, bki, blig, bmg, bogc, bogg, Bpic, bpif, bsg, Bugg, bui, Bvi, bwg, byg, byj, byv, Byw, eig, ibdg, ibeg, ibf, ibg, ibw, ibz, Icgb, ig, Igw, migg, oig, Qigc, tbig, vig, zigg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gib.

-1 letter: bi.

+1 letter: bigs, brig, gibe, gibs, glib.

+2 letters: begin, beige, beigy, being, bewig, bight, bigly, bigot, bilge, bilgy, binge, bingo, bogie, boing, brigs, bring, gibed, giber, gibes.

+3 letters: abying, airbag, baaing, baggie, bagnio, bagwig, baking, baling, baning, baring, basing, bating, baying, begins, begird, begirt, begrim, beiges, beings, benign, bewigs, biding, bigamy, bigeye, bigger, biggie, biggin, bights, bigots, bigwig, biking, bilged, bilges, binged, binger, binges, bingos, biogas, biogen, biting, blight, bluing, boding, bogies, boning, boogie, booing, boring, bougie, bowing, boxing, bridge, bright, brings, budgie, busing, buying, cubing, ebbing, gabies, gabion, gambia, gambir, gambit, gerbil, ghibli, gibbed, gibber, gibbet, gibbon, gibers, gibing, giblet, gibson, gimbal, glibly, globin, gobies, goblin, gybing, jibing, lubing, oblige, orbing, robing, rubigo, tubing.