Massive

Definition: Massive

Massive

Adjective

1. Imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale".

2. Being the same substance throughout; "massive silver".

3. Imposing in scale or scope or degree or power; "massive retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices"; "massive changes".

4. Consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter; "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets".

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

Date "massive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Massive \Mass"ive\, adjective. [French expression massif.]. (references)

Geography

Mining

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Synonyms: Massive

Density

Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy.

Gravity

Adjective: weighty; weighing. Verb: heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.

Size

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

Crosswords: Massive

German (massifs, massiveness, robust).

I dream of massive, pristine convenience (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

He's going about doing his job because he has no idea, in about an hour he's going to die in a massive explosion (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

They don't hide massive secrets (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster)

It rises 1600 feet--a world of dangerous, fragile beauty; a cascade of massive blocks of ice moving imperceptibly from the glacier above, pushed by the weight of centuries of the snows of Everest (The Man Who Skied Down Everest; writing credit: Kyle Onstott; Jack Kirkland)

A lot of Celebes are bald these days, Bruce Willis, Yul Brynner, Sean Connery, skin's in man. Then again Connery wants the best of both worlds, did you see his wig in The Rock? Massive, never saw it again (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

Monster Machines: Massive Miners (2000)

Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century (1999)

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Books

• Massive at Last (reference)

• Physics of Massive Neutrinos (reference)

• Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo (reference)

• Versus Books Presents: Massive Online Gaming- Vol. #1 (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Massive Attack - Eleven Promos (reference)

• The Massive (reference)

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Music

• C64: Massive Sidplay Party Mix (reference)

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High Tech

• InterAct Massive Memory Card 1440-Jewel Case (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Hudson Sprayer 69753 Massive Poly-Valve (reference)

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

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The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Massive Magnetic Core. Credit: NASA.

A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In ... Credit: NASA.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive ... Credit: NASA.

The birthplace of massive stars, 30 Doradus Nebula (WFPC2 and NICMOS). Credit: NASA.

Tiny coral animals build massive reef structures. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Serpulid sp. polychaete worm - note coral polyps on massive coral head. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Feeding polyps on massive coral head - polyps are filter-feeders. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Massive machine with 3 inch wide cutting projections digs into the potash in underground mine near Carlsbad, NM. Credit: J. Olson.

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The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. (reference)

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The framework of his nature, originally strong and massive, was not yet crumbled into ruin

His massive coach, all gilded, with great lily branches painted on the panels, rolled noisily along

He wore a massive gold wedding ring on the third finger of his left hand

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Health

These seizures may cause loss of consciousness, falls, or massive muscle spasms. (references)

Diverticular disease caused by diverticula--outpouchings of the colon wall--can result in massive bleeding. (references)

In the 1960s, the U.S. Government, WHO, and other agencies launched a massive search for new antimalarial drugs. (references)

Business

Development of voice networks has also been massive. (references)

In 1995, the Chinese Government launched a massive anti-corruption campaign. (references)

Due to massive investments in the last decade, the supermarket industry is maturing. (references)

Children

Afghanistan

One-quarter of children die before the age of 5. These figures most likely have increased due to another year of drought, intensified fighting, and massive displacement. (references)

Civil Liberties

Peru

Political violence in the 1980's and early 1990's resulted in the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of persons and massive migration. (references)

Malaysia

In the days prior to the event, police also detained seven opposition activists under the ISA, and claimed that they were planning a massive, violent demonstration to overthrow the Government. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

The government began a massive intrusion in the private sector. (references)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is working on a massive expansion of its rail system. (references)

Hungary

The ensuing battle quickly grew into a massive popular uprising. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Whole communities sometimes are subjected to massive security checks. (references)

Afghanistan

Continued warfare, as well as prolonged and severe drought, also resulted in massive forced displacement of civilians. (references)

Gambia

The dismissal of Johnson and Fatty was followed by a massive public outcry that the President had acted unconstitutionally. (references)

Minorities

Lebanon

On December 31, 1999, the LAF retaliated by launching a massive military operation against Sunni extremists in the north. (references)

China

According to official accounts, by May the authorities were prosecuting over 3,000 cases and massive public sentencing rallies attended by more than 300,000 persons had been held throughout the region. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Almost one-fourth of these movements occurred in massive displacements. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

The GOI launched a massive bank recapitalization program in 1999 that has stabilized the banking sector but is not yet completed. (references)

Cyprus

This trend was so massive that, by the end of June 2001, it was estimated that 80 percent of new loans to the private sector were EU-denominated. (references)

Venezuela

Foreign banks control 43 percent of the banking system's assets (up from 3 percent in 1993), a reflection of the government's massive bank reprivatization effort in 1996-97. (references)

Worker Rights

France

Workers at Marks and Spencer, Danone, and AOM-Air Liberte struck to protest proposed massive airline layoffs. (references)

Yugoslavia

The official workweek, listed as 40 hours, is not respected because of massive underemployment and unemployment. (references)

Rwanda

The labor movement has been hampered in practice because of the massive disruptions caused by the 1994 genocide. (references)

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Expressions using "massive": a massive helping ♦ massive investment ♦ massive layoffs ♦ massive protest ♦ massive relation ♦ Massive rock ♦ progressive massive fibrosis. Additional references.

Ending with "massive": mega-massive, super-massive.

Albanian

masiv (bulky, clump, mass, massif, massy), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏مكثف (concentrated, condenser, intensified, trimmer), ‏مصمت (solid), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏غزير (abundant, bumper, copious, exuberant, flush, hard, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, redundant, superabundant, torrential, voluminous), ‏ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, great, landslide, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, 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, 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), ‏ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

солиден (lusty, massy, portly, pucka, pukka, rugged, secure, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy, valid), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), обемист (bulky, capacious, gross, large, voluminous), мощен (forceful, main, mighty, powerful, vigorous), масов (mass), едър (big, bouncing, burly, coarse, full, gross, husky, large, massy, overblown, portly, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping), еднороден (homogeneous, indiscrete, unblended, uniform), без определена кристална форма. (various references)

Chinese 

巨型 (Giant). (various references)

Czech

masivní (bulky, hulking), podstatný (constituent, essential, fundamental, germane, intrinsic, intrinsical, perceptible, quintessential, real, substantial, substantive, vital), pořádný (good, lumping, lusty, real, regular, respectable, sound). (various references)

Danish

massiv (copious). (various references)

Dutch

massief (solid). (various references)

Esperanto

masiva. (various references)

Farsi 

فشرده (Squeeze, Succinct), کلان (Huge, Immense), گنده (Huge, Unwieldy, Whopper), حجیم (Large, Voluminous), عظیم (August, Enormous, Glorious, Great, Terrific, Tremendous, Vast, Whopper), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish

jykevä (robust, stout, sturdy). (various references)

French

massif (mass, massif, massy). (various references)

Frisian

massyf (solid). (various references)

German

massiv (compact, gross, heavy, massif, massively, ponderous, powerful, severe, solid, wholesale). (various references)

Greek 

συμπαγήσ (compact, concrete, massy, solid, tubeless), συμπαγής μάζα, βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), τεράστιος (huge, immense, prodigious, vast), ογκώδησ (bulky, hulking, hulky, massy, voluminous), ογκώδης (bulky, cumbersome, unwieldy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוצק (cast, cast iron, compact, firm, hard, solid, substantial), מקשי, מסיבי, עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, immense, mighty, strength, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), כבד (burdensome, difficult, dull, hard, heavy, leaden, weighty), גושי (compact, of the block). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy (bang, big, 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, 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). (various references)

Indonesian

secara besar-besaran, pejal, bagur (hulking, ponderous), antep (heavy, solid). (various references)

Italian

massiccio (bulky, lumpish, massif, solid, stout), massivo, compatto (close, compact, compactly, dense, hard, serried, solid, thick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重い (heavy, important, oppressed, serious, severe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもたい (heavy, important, oppressed, serious, severe), おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, imagination, important, love, mind, oppressed, sentiment, serious, severe, thought, wish), ぶあつい (bulky, heavy, thick), どっしり (bulky and heavy, massy, substantial), かいじょう (an upper floor, assembly hall, capitulation, circular, circulating letter, factorial, maritime, meeting place, opening, the grounds, upstairs), りょうかん (bulky, consort ship, feelings of coolness, office-seeking, voluminous). (various references)

Korean 

다량 (Much). (various references)

Manx

gloutagh (lumpy, monstrous, titanic), feer vooar (colossal, giant, gigantic, monumental, vast, whopping). (various references)

Papiamen

masif (solid). (various references)

Pig Latin

assivemay.(various references)

Portuguese

maciço (compact, lumpish, massy, solid). (various references)

Romanian

masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heap, heavy, massif, massively, massy, portly, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, voluminous, wholesale), voluminos (big, bulky, capacious, extensive, gross, man-sized, spacious, stodgy, voluminous), solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping), compact (close, compact, compactly, dense, densely, firm, indiscrete, serried, solid, stiff, tight). (various references)

Russian 

сплошной (compact, continuous, entire, sheeted), огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, huge, immense, knock out, monster, prodigious, terrific, tremendous, whacking, whopping), массовый (mass, mass-production), массивный (clumpy, massy), плотный (burly, close, compact, dense, hard, solid, thick, tight, tough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

masivan (massy, ponderous), obiman (ample, capacious, comprehensive, extensive, large, massy, spacious, voluminous), krupan (big, burly, husky, large, man-sized, massy, walloping). (various references)

Spanish

maciso (solid), masivo (mass, wholesale), macizo (bed, chunk, chunky, clump, flowerbed, gardenbed, mass, massif, quickly, solid). (various references)

Swedish

massiv (solid). (various references)

Turkish

masif (solid), yekpare (in a single piece, monolithic, solid), som (solid, sterling), iri (ample, big, bulky, chopping, corpulent, large, portly), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukrainian

щільний (air proof, compact, dense, sclerotic, thick, tight, turbid), широкомасштабний, масовий (mass, wholesale), масивний (bastard, beamy, heavy, hulking, massy, ponderous, solid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massy, monster, titanic), đồ sộ; chắc nặng thô ồ ạt. (various references)

plomp. (various references)

masse. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "massive": massively, massiveness, massivenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "massive": supermassive. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Massive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kassite, Maassi, Macniven, Masciave, masie, masive, Masiye, Massane, Masseme, Massieu, massvac, Mersyside, misive, Mistivoj, Moskva, Mousavi, mpassive, msgsize, musavat, Musavi, Nassif. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mavises.

-1 letter: mavies.

-2 letters: amies, amiss, masse, mavie, mavis, mesas, mises, saves, seams, seism, semis, simas, vases, visas, vises.

-3 letters: aims, amie, amis, aves, isms, maes, mass, mesa, mess, mise, miss, same, save, seam, seas, seis, semi, sima, sims, vase, vies, vims, visa, vise.

-4 letters: aim, ais, ami, ass, ave, ems, ess, ism, mae, mas, mis.

+1 letter: misavers.

+2 letters: admissive, impassive, massively, misadvise, misvalues, veganisms.

+3 letters: almsgivers, assumptive, misadvised, misadvises, misbehaves, timesavers, vasotomies, verbalisms.

+4 letters: advisements, amativeness, evangelisms, impassively, massiveness, misbehavers, negativisms, ravishments, relativisms, revanchisms, revivalisms, semidwarves, semiquavers, vasectomies.

+5 letters: adventurisms, ambiversions, assimilative, avitaminoses, behaviorisms, cavalierisms, conservatism, harvesttimes, maidservants, medievalisms, medievalists, misbehaviors, misevaluates, overemphasis, supermassive, transmissive, transvestism, universalism, vaginismuses, vasectomizes.