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ENORMOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
Example:
a plane took off with a tremendous noise
Synonyms:
enormous; tremendous
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
enormity (vastness of size or extent)
enormousness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)
Context examples:
Outlined against the clear blue of the sky, he had the appearance of an enormous spider crawling along the tracery of its web.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Of course I at once saw the enormous importance of the observation.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The scientists noticed an enormous, previously unexamined circular depression under Hiawatha Glacier, sitting at the very edge of the ice sheet in northwestern Greenland.
(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
Miraculously, good-fortune Jupiter will be in a perfect position to help you from your income sector and so will action Mars and transformative Pluto—that is enormous planetary power.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
To my enormous relief, he had improved greatly in the interval.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It has enormous capacity to store water. What we don't know is 'How does the storage space get produced?' Understanding this layer between the soil and rock is important."
(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)
While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn – the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons – will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.
(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)
The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists.
(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)
In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
