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TOO LARGE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively large
Synonyms:
overlarge; too large
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples:
Everybody acknowledged Buck a magnificent animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked too large in their eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A number of long dark objects, which were too large for alligators and too long for canoes, lay upon the edges of these patches of sand.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Paget's disease of bone causes your bones to grow too large and weak.
(Paget's Disease of Bone, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
The red cross was, of course, far too large to be a guide; and the terms of the note on the back, as you will hear, admitted of some ambiguity.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There were three minnows in the pool, which was too large to drain; and after several ineffectual attempts to catch them in the tin bucket he forbore.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The 'effalunt' sat up, looking as much in earnest as any of them, and said soberly to me, "I gif you my wort it is so, if we make too large a noise you shall say Hush! to us, and we go more softly."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furniture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On the other side, discoursing of the ladies in that emperor’s court, he used to tell me, one had freckles; another too wide a mouth; a third too large a nose; nothing of which I was able to distinguish.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint takes advantage of economies of scale, confronts challenges too large for any single institute or center, and develops research tools and infrastructure that serve the entire neuroscience community.
(Blueprint for Neuroscience, NCI Thesaurus)
