noun
- A garment size for a large person.
adjective
- Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: big
- Fairly large or important in effect; influential.
- usage: "played a large role in the negotiations"
- Ostentatiously lofty in style.
- usage: "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
- synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid
- Generous and understanding and tolerant.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: big, magnanimous
- Conspicuous in position or importance.
- usage: "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
- Having broad power and range and scope.
- usage: "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
- In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
- usage: "was big with child"; "was great with child"
adverb
- At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark. )
- With the wind abaft the beam.
- usage: "a ship sailing large"
- In a boastful manner.
- usage: "he talked big all evening"
- synonyms: boastfully, vauntingly, big
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