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Definition of 'big'

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Adjective

  1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "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: large
       Antonyms: small little small little
  2. significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
  3. conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
       Synonyms: large prominent
  4. very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
       Synonyms: bad
  5. loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
  6. prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
       Synonyms: heavy
  7. (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"
       Synonyms: adult full-grown fully grown grown grownup
  8. marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
  9. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
       Synonyms: swelled vainglorious
  10. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
       Synonyms: boastful braggart bragging braggy cock-a-hoop crowing self-aggrandizing self-aggrandising
  11. generous and understanding and tolerant; "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: large magnanimous
  12. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
       Synonyms: bighearted bounteous bountiful freehanded handsome giving liberal openhanded
  13. in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
       Synonyms: enceinte expectant gravid great large heavy with child

Adverb

  1. extremely well; "his performance went over big"
  2. in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
       Synonyms: boastfully vauntingly large
  3. on a grand scale; "think big"
       Antonyms: small
  4. in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"


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