large

1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent (synset 301385012)
   "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"
   tells us about: size - the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
   similar to:

   • ample, sizable, sizeable - fairly large in size
   • astronomic, astronomical, galactic - inconceivably large
   • bear-sized - large as a bear
   • bigger, larger - large or big relative to something else
   • biggish, largish - somewhat large
   • blown-up, enlarged - as of a photograph; made larger
   • bouffant, puffy - being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
   • broad, spacious, wide - very large in expanse or scope
   • bulky - of large size for its weight
   • capacious - large in capacity
   • colossal, prodigious, stupendous - so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
   • deep - large in quantity or size
   • double - large enough for two
   • enormous, tremendous - extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
   • cosmic - inconceivably extended in space or time
   • elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo - of great mass; huge and bulky
   • epic, heroic, larger-than-life - very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
   • extended, extensive - large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
   • gigantic, mammoth - so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
   • great - relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
   • grand - large and impressive in physical size or extent
   • brobdingnagian, huge, immense, vast - unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
   • hulking, hulky - of great size and bulk
   • banging, humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping - (used informally) very large
   • king-size, king-sized - extra large
   • large-mouthed - having a relatively large mouth
   • large-scale - unusually large in scope
   • large-scale - constructed or drawn to a big scale
   • full-size, life-size, life-sized, lifesize - being of the same size as an original
   • macroscopic, macroscopical - large enough to be visible with the naked eye
   • macro - very large in scale or scope or capability
   • man-sized - very large; appropriate to the size of a man
   • massive, monolithic, monumental - imposing in size or bulk or solidity
   • massive - imposing in scale or scope or degree or power
   • medium-large - of anything that is large but not the largest
   • monstrous - abnormally large
   • mountainous - like a mountain in size and impressiveness
   • outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized - larger than normal for its kind
   • overlarge, too large - excessively large
   • plumping - very large; of exceptional size for its kind
   • queen-size, queen-sized - (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size
   • rangy - allowing ample room for ranging
   • super - extremely large
   • titanic - of great force or power
   • volumed - formed or rising in rounded masses
   • voluminous - large in volume or bulk
   • whacking - (British informal) enormous
   • wide-ranging - including much
   same as: big
2. Fairly large or important in effect;
   Influential (synset 302170722)
   "played a large role in the negotiations"
   similar to: important, significant - important in effect or meaning
3. Ostentatiously lofty in style (synset 302024095)
   "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
   similar to: rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
   same as: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid
4. Generous and understanding and tolerant (synset 301118400)
   "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"
   similar to: generous - not petty in character and mind
   same as: big, magnanimous
5. Conspicuous in position or importance (synset 300581973)
   "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
   similar to: conspicuous - obvious to the eye or mind
   same as: big, prominent
6. Having broad power and range and scope (synset 300530075)
   "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
   similar to: comprehensive - including all or everything
7. In an advanced stage of pregnancy (synset 300174652)
   "was big with child"; "was great with child"
   similar to: pregnant - carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
   same as: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child

1. A garment size for a large person (synset 105103453)
   is a type of: size - the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

1. At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) (synset 400388297)
2. With the wind abaft the beam (synset 400388211)
   "a ship sailing large"
3. In a boastful manner (synset 400227289)
   "he talked big all evening"
   same as: big, boastfully, vauntingly

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