Enormous

Definition: Enormous

Enormous

Adjective

1. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise".

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Date "enormous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonym: Enormous

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Multitude

Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Crosswords: Enormous

My God, the mazes must be enormous. (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.)

He's enormous! (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

They're enormous! Just look at these Enormous panties (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

You create man, man suffers enormous amounts of pain, man dies (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander)

You know, there's nothing more off-putting in a wedding than a priest with an enormous erection, yech (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Top it off, he was growing hair all over and his penis was enormous, even by adult (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

The Enormous Egg (1968)

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)

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Books

• Eight Enormous Elephants: Yellow Level (Read It! Readers) (reference)

• Einstein's Enormous Error A Story About Forgiving Others (reference)

• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (reference)

• Enormous Prayers: A Journey into the Priesthood (reference)

• Enormous Room (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (reference)

• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (reference)

• Standard Deviants: Enormous English Pack (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system ... Credit: NASA.

Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows united. The wild wheel whirl wonders. The 7 Gaynells ... Credit: Library of Congress.

A vacuum mechanism for inserting discs is an important unit in the machine setup of a converted cash register factory now producing 20mm fuses in enormous quantities. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the substations supplying the enormous quantities of electric power needed in steel production. Clairton, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

American lorries arrive in the Middle East. Large numbers of American lorries being assembled here continue to arrive in the Middle East despite the enormous demand for war equipment in the Pacific. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men handling the thousands of hot magnesium ingots produced daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A number of units of this plant are now in production. Full. Credit: Library of Congress.

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Prince of Pilsen by Lüders & Pixley : an enormous all-star revival. Credit: Library of Congress.

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That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine. (reference)

The Russian- dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.

All at once the enormous mass started, the cart rose slowly, the wheels came half out of the ruts

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Health

The economic consequences of TBI are enormous. (references)

Obesity creates an enormous psychological burden. (references)

Scientists have made enormous progress in the last 25 years. (references)

Business

Bulgaria therefore has an enormous development potential. (references)

Spain has enormous potential for further wind energy development. (references)

Recent market liberalization has had an enormous effect on the industry. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

Citizens changing residence within the country, as well as persons with a legal claim to citizenship who decide to move to Russia from other former Soviet republics, often face enormous difficulties or simply are not permitted to register in some cities. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has enormous untapped gas potential. (references)

Georgia

The potential for tourism in Georgia is enormous. (references)

Political Economy

India

In India, enormous social diversity and democracy give rise to many voices of dissent. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

If this downturn in tourism continues, the economic loss to The Bahamas will be enormous. (references)

Ecuador

They do, however, exert enormous influence over the population and are rumored to practice vigilante justice when given the opportunity. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The existence of an enormous rural labor force--some 550 million out of a total labor force of about 750 million--also complicates the organization and protection of workers. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Enormous crimes

Expressions using "enormous": enormous fellow ♦ enormous quantity ♦ enormous success ♦ enormous sum of money ♦ with enormous gusto. Additional references.

Beginning with "enormous": enormous-breasted, enormous-looking, enormous-seeming.

Ending with "enormous": still-enormous, ultra-enormous.

Afrikaans

geweldig (huge, immense), enorm (huge, immense). (various references)

Albanian

vigan (colossal, giant, gigantesque, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i pamasë (immense, infinite, non-dimensional, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

هائل (awful, remarkable), ‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, 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), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous, ugly), ‏شاسع (vast, wide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чудовищен (miscreated, monster, monstrous, prodigious, unnatural), грамаден (exceeding, huge, immeasurable, immense, lumping, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious), огромен (formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), зверски (atrocious, beastly, monstrous). (various references)

Chinese 

龐大 (huge, tremendous), 龐 (huge, tremendous), 极大, 極大 , 巨大 (gigantic, huge, immense, tremendous, very large). (various references)

Czech

velikánský, ohromný (dishy, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), obrovský (colossal, giant, gigantic, howling, huge, immense, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, tremendous, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), nesmírný (extreme, great, immeasurable, immense, infinite, prodigious, rare, unbounded, utmost, vast), kolosální (colossal, huge, monstrous, monumental). (various references)

Danish

enorm. (various references)

Dutch

enorm (enormously, huge, immense). (various references)

Esperanto

enorma, grandega (huge, immense). (various references)

Faeroese

risastórur (huge, immense), ómetaligur (priceless). (various references)

Farsi 

هنگفت (Great, Large), عظیم (August, Glorious, Great, Massive, Terrific, Tremendous, Vast, Whopper), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish

valtava (huge, immense, tremendous), suunnaton (colossal, huge, immense, vast), mahdottoman suuri (huge), jättiläiskokoinen (gigantic), ääretön (boundless, endless, huge, immense, infinite, vast). (various references)

French

énorme. (various references)

Frisian

enoarm. (various references)

German

riesig (colossal, enormously, gargantuan, giant, giantly, gigantic, huge, hugely, immeasurable, immense, immensely, jumbo, mammoth, mammothly, massive, monolithic, monstrous, mountainous, sprawling, tremendous, tremendously, vast, walloping), gewaltig (colossal, epic, formidable, grand, heroic, huge, hugely, immense, massive, mightily, mighty, monumental, mountainous, mountainously, portentous, powerful, prodigious, ravenous, resounding, rude, shattering, towering, tremendous, vast, vastly, violent, walloping), enorm (enormously, formidable, giant, huge, immense, immensely, massive, monumental, stupendous, thumping, tremendous, vast, whopping), ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregious, egregiously, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monster, monsters, monstrosities, monstrous, monstrously, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous). (various references)

Greek 

κολοσσιαίοσ (colossal, swingeing), υπερμεγέθησ (bloated, champion, huge, king size, oversize), τεράστιοσ (gargantuan, huge, monster, prodigious, stupendous), τερατώδησ (monstrous), θεόρατοσ (giant, gigantic, huge). (various references)

Hebrew 

ענקי (colossal, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, stupendous, walloping), כביר (grand, huge, immense, mighty, stupendous, terrific, thundering, tremendous). (various references)

Hungarian

óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping), roppant nagy (huge, whacking, whacking-great), hatalmas (ample, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, huge, mighty, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic, vast). (various references)

Indonesian

maha besar (fury, gigantic), azis (aweinspiring). (various references)

Italian

enorme (awful, gargantuan, huge, immense, mammoth, monster, swingeing, tremendous, walloping, whopping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨大 (bulky, expansion, extensive, huge, swelling), 甚大 (serious, very great), 巨大 (gigantic, huge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おそるべき (dreadful), きょだい (gigantic, huge), しだい (as soon as, circumstances, dependent upon, immediate, immense, magazine's price, order, precedence, private university or college), ぼうだい (bulky, expansion, extensive, huge, subtitle, swelling), ばくだい (vast), じんだい (age of the gods, ancient time, serious, very great). (various references)

Korean 

거대한 (Colossal, Giant, Gigantic, huge). (various references)

Manx

buillvollee (colossal, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, mammoth). (various references)

Norwegian

enorm. (various references)

Papiamen

enorme. (various references)

Pig Latin

enormousay.(various references)

Polish

olbrzymi (huge, immense). (various references)

Portuguese

enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Romanian

enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping). (various references)

Russian 

огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enourmous, giantlike, huge, immense, knock out, massive, monster, prodigious, terrific, tremendous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogroman (gargantuan, huge, immense, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, tremendous, vast, vasty, whopping). (various references)

Spanish

enorme (cyclopean, egregious, great, gross, heinous, huge, immense, jumbo, killing, king size, marvellous, marvelous, massive, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, prodigious, swingeing, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking). (various references)

Swedish

enorm (howling, huge, immense, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, super-duper, supreme, terrific, thumping). (various references)

Thai

ที่ใหญ่มหึมา. (various references)

Turkish

muazzam (colossal, egregious, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), koskocaman (huge, tremendous, very big, whacking, whaling), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), dağ gibi (huge, mountainous, mountainy), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, 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), azman (hybrid, monstrous, overgrown). (various references)

Turkmen 

mдhnet (huge, tremendous). (various references)

Ukrainian

величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched). (various references)

Welsh

enfawr (huge, immense), dirfawr (huge, immense, vast), an-wedd. (various references)

enormis, ingens, ingentem, ingentes, ingenti, ingentia, ingentique. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "enormous": enormously, enormousness, enormousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Enormous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enomous, enormaous, enormi, enormouse, enormus, enourmous, ernomous, Eunomius, Informoos, neuromas, neuromast. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: onerous, sunroom, unmoors.

-2 letters: morons, morose, mourns, mouser, nooser, romeos, rouens, rumens, sermon, sooner, unmoor.

-3 letters: enorm, euros, menus, meous, meson, monos, moons, moors, moose, mores, morns, moron, morse, moues, mourn, mouse, muons, mures, muser, neums, nomes, nomos, noose, norms, nurse, omens, omers, romeo, rooms, roose, rouen, roues, rouse, rumen, runes, senor, serum.

+2 letters: enormously, monestrous.

+3 letters: amorousness, ceremonious, compounders, coterminous, motoneurons, neurohumors, nonconsumer, noncustomer, ostensorium, outdoorsmen, overconsume, somniferous.

+4 letters: conterminous, countermemos, countermoves, enormousness, heteronomous, humorousness, mispronounce, monocultures, mononuclears, mucoproteins, nonconsumers, noncustomers, numerologies, numerologist, overconsumed, overconsumes, pseudorandom, rumormongers, southernmost, timorousness.

+5 letters: amorousnesses, amorphousness, angiospermous, ceremoniously, clamorousness, coterminously, glamorousness, gymnospermous, hymenopterous, immunosorbent, mispronounced, mispronounces, misunderstood, monstrousness, neuroblastoma, neurofibromas, neurohormones, nonpetroleums, numerologists, overconsuming, overdocuments, precombustion, prolegomenous, semiconductor, unceremonious.