Crossword clues for biggest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Big \Big\ (b[i^]g), a. [Compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.] [Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build, akin to E. be.]
Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. ``He's too big to go in there.''
--Shak.-
Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
--Addison. -
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument.
--Jer. Taylor.Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
I talked big to them at first.
--De Foe.Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
Biggest \Big"gest\, a., superl. of Big.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
superlative of big.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativebig)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: large] [ant: small, small]
significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event" [syn: momentous]
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" [syn: large, prominent]
very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad]
loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)]
(of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup]
marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: swelled, vainglorious]
older brother or sister; "big sister" [syn: big(a), elder, older] [ant: little(a)]
exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising]
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" [syn: large, magnanimous]
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" [syn: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]
adv. extremely well; "his performance went over big"
in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, large]
on a grand scale; "think big" [ant: small]
in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
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Usage examples of "biggest".
Each department manager picks a VPI, and whoever generates the biggest sales wins a bit of cash.
By building its own network of warehouses and its own fleet of trucks to make deliveries to stores, the company was able to consolidate its ordering and buy in volume just like the biggest retailers.
Wal-Mart remains the biggest employer in town by far, with its headquarters located on a road named for its founder, Sam Walton Boulevard.
In the 1920s, its biggest employer at the time, the Mersman Brothers Corp.
This helped Huffy meet demand, but the company soon found that it simply could not make a profit selling bicycles at the prices that its biggest customer, Wal-Mart, was willing to pay.
Its biggest creditor was the company it contracted with to build the bikes it could no longer afford to make itself: the Shenzhen Bo-An Bike Co.
Farris Fashions, a flannel shirt maker struggling to remain solvent after losing one of its biggest customers to a factory in China.
Rubbermaid supplied all the big discount chains, but found its greatest retail ally in Wal-Mart, which quickly became its single biggest customer.
One of the biggest recent failures in the textile business came in 2003, when the Pillowtex Corp.
Pillowtex, which had emerged from bankruptcy protection a year earlier, struggled to find a way to make towels profitably at a price that its biggest customer, Wal-Mart, would be willing to pay.
In the last few years, though, it has convinced itself that Supercenters can thrive just three to four miles apart in the biggest markets.
Supercenter expansion augurs an escalation of what already is the biggest food fight in history.
Sheer anger made Ipan turn to face Biggest, who was thundering after him.
The chimps stood rooted, Biggest grunted and peered in disbelief at the blood that spattered into his upturned hand.
He was not fool enough to think that this one standoff would put Biggest to rest.