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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outsized

"larger than average," 1880, from out (adv.) + size.

Wiktionary
outsized
  1. of an unusually large size v

  2. (en-past of: outsize)

WordNet
outsized

adj. larger than normal for its kind [syn: outsize, oversize, oversized]

Usage examples of "outsized".

A combat vehicle like an outsized, lightly armored jeep, a hummer could carry quite a sting, up to and including pop-up launchers for TOW or Hellfire antitank missiles meant to take out much tougher targets than Mobile One.

Now, as he beheld the area below, he saw the Bololos bending over the piles of costumes and props, draping themselves in outsized garments and picking up various implements.

We spend the next weeks moving in and out of the cordgrass, disturbing the fiddler crabs, who brandish their colorful outsized claws in warning.

Jennifer as Desis One and Two struggled with the outsized trunk, carrying it into the suite and setting it upright.

Brazenly now she held up her outsized bloomers to the light and arranged them on the ironing board.

Though they were larger than later mammalian equivalents like wildebeest or antelope, they walked on two legs like outsized ostriches, their strides long, their heads bobbing.

She was still rising as she spoke and now, stepping back with a parody of a dance, her face fixed in a wide, thin smile, her body moving skinnily, she let his outsized dressing gown drop to her waist.

Less than a meter tall, they stood on two thick trunklike legs with massively oversized feet and they had two arms ending in equally outsized hands, three fingers and an opposable thumb that extended opposite the index finger rather than at the end of the hand.

He was arguing with a looming black giant who bore an outsized assagai few other men could have lifted.

To my left, three tall shelves of outsized atlases stretched off to the far wall.

It was not the most comfortable of hideaways, and fish constantly mis took his arms and legs for outsized Thread so he had to keep moving.

He knew the mighty ax-swing that must be arrested by the arm that guided it, knew the almost inevitable looping backswing, lower, curving upward, during which the outsized man covered himself with heavy buckler.

Let's pass back down Cornmarket, through the horrible, low-ceilinged, ill-lit drabness of the Clarendon Shopping Centre, out on to Queen Street, past the equally unadorable Westgate Shopping Centre and central library with its heartless, staring windows and come to rest at the outsized pustule that is the head office of Oxfordshire County Council.

Most remarkable was his head: an outsized hairless browless ball that dandled forward and to one side as if too weighty for the neck.

I can take the no-fingernails bit, but your outsized claw around my throat while you grab the Ameche is somethin' else.