Search for crossword answers and clues
Very big
Answer for the clue "Very big ", 8 letters:
enormous
Alternative clues for the word enormous
Word definitions for enormous in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary. 2 (context obsolete English) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous. 3 Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "abnormal" (usually in a bad sense), from Latin enormis "out of rule, irregular, shapeless; extraordinary, very large," from assimilated form of ex- "out of" (see ex- ) + norma "rule, norm" (see norm ), with English -ous substituted for Latin -is ...
Usage examples of enormous.
But those same traits created an enormous ego, I think, that had a single and absolutist view of itself.
Lepi, who though a hunchback was very talented and an excellent actress, was sure of exciting desire by the rare beauty of her eyes and teeth, which latter challenged admiration from her enormous mouth by their regularity and whiteness.
Eric thought they were the same thing, these two, and the old Chinese was the same, doing acupoint massage, and the repair crew passing fiber-optic cable down a manhole from an enormous yellow spool.
Shaped like an enormous spider and forged from solid adamantine, it balanced on eight curved legs.
Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.
In the course of their deliberations they addressed his majesty for more information, till at length the truth seemed to be smothered under such an enormous burden of papers, as the efforts of a whole session could not have properly removed.
They are available for businesses to advertise on, and their impact is enormous among local residents.
I had placed myself at the port-scuttle, and saw some magnificent substructures of coral, zoophytes, seaweed, and fucus, agitating their enormous claws, which stretched out from the fissures of the rock.
I have more than half persuaded myself that it is an enormous piece of ambergris, washed up by the sea.
Without this no amphibious operations on the enormous scale required to liberate Europe would have been possible.
So much stimulation, especially in the wake of the disaster that recently overtook us and the enormous output of energy required to restore the Ancestral Meadows, drains their stamina and vitality.
On my answering in the affirmative he fell on his knees, and drawing an enormous rosary from his pocket he cast his gaze all round the cell.
In the center of the huge domed ballroom was a round pool illuminated in such a way as to make it appear like an enormous aquamarine cabochon jewel.
The power of the spell flattened the enormous arachnid, opened its exoskeleton, and a host of smaller spiders leaped upon it to feed.
But be assured that if all goes as my partner and I wish it, then you and the Armorer will do us an enormous favor that will help us to a serious quantity of jack.