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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enormous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/huge/enormous appetite
▪ By the time Ron was 16 he had an enormous appetite.
a considerable/large/enormous etc amount
▪ a considerable amount of money
a great/enormous/tremendous etc relief
▪ It was a great relief to him when she returned safely.
a huge/enormous variety
▪ Fruit is eaten by a huge variety of animals and birds.
a huge/enormous/vast sum
▪ The company has invested huge sums in research.
a huge/massive/enormous explosion
▪ An enormous explosion tore the roof off the building.
a vast/huge/enormous quantity
▪ Computers can handle vast quantities of data.
big/enormous etc ego
▪ Richard has the biggest ego thinks he is very clever and important of anyone I’ve ever met.
enormous faith
▪ Ford placed enormous faith in the new model.
enormous/considerable/incredible odds
▪ He survived a night in the cold water against incredible odds.
enormous/intense interest (=very great)
▪ This tournament has created enormous interest.
enormous/massive/gigantic etc proportions
▪ The company is heading towards a disaster of enormous proportions.
enormous/tremendous enthusiasm
▪ He always plays with tremendous enthusiasm.
enormous/tremendous/immense popularity
▪ the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
great/considerable/enormous importance
▪ Crime rates have great importance for the government.
▪ Some people attach enormous importance to personal wealth.
great/considerable/enormous
▪ Staff experienced considerable stress as a result of the changes.
great/enormous strength
▪ Hercules was famous for his great strength.
great/enormous/considerable potential
▪ This is a team with great potential.
great/enormous/immense pleasure
▪ Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
great/enormous/tremendous excitement
▪ There is great excitement about the Pope's visit.
▪ The news causes tremendous excitement.
great/huge/enormous
▪ The central banks have huge power.
grow to enormous etc proportions
▪ The fish grows to gigantic proportions.
huge/enormous/massive
▪ Industry has a huge impact on the environment we live in.
▪ The impact has been enormous on people's daily lives.
immense/enormous satisfaction (=very great)
▪ The victory gave him immense satisfaction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ Competition for places in high status universities is so enormous that after-school attendance at expensive private crammer schools is virtually compulsory.
▪ Simply put, it is a means of generating internal power so enormous one can fell an opponent without actually touching him.
▪ I understood why the pyramids were so enormous and splendid, of course.
▪ The cost of this endeavor is so enormous that it seems most unlikely to happen.
▪ Today the cost of making theatre is so enormous it's become a new form of institutionalising.
▪ The mussels were so enormous I suspected they had some kind of overactive glandular condition.
▪ The implications were almost too enormous to contemplate. So enormous it couldn't possibly be true -could it?
▪ The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ This flexibility is an enormous advantage over one-off end-of-year examinations.
▪ This is a hefty shift away from the traditional model of motherhood, but it generates enormous advantages.
▪ But in the end it proved an enormous advantage.
▪ They have an enormous advantage in the strength of the yen and the size of their asset base.
amount
▪ We have an enormous amount of data stored on 9C computers nationwide.
▪ But what impressed me most was the enormous amount of sheer wasted space everywhere I happened to glance.
▪ I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it.
▪ The enormous amount we have learned about male and female psychology simply has not been enough.
▪ I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company.
▪ However there is now an enormous amount of experimental evidence in favour of it.
▪ The first is that enormous amounts of professional time and effort will be absorbed in explaining apparent differences between classes and schools.
▪ And this truly takes an enormous amount of time.
change
▪ Male speaker There've been such enormous changes.
▪ Above all, it alone can not fully control the enormous change of which it is a part.
▪ This seems to me to be an enormous change.
▪ Half a dozen good people in top positions can bring about enormous change.
▪ More broadly, there are the enormous changes of the past few years to reflect upon.
▪ Everything from commerce to entertainment to government is on the verge of enormous change, he adds.
▪ Government attitudes towards monetary policy have undergone enormous changes since 1945.
▪ But it is an uneasy calm, expectant of imminent, enormous change.
cost
▪ The enormous cost of engineering the lines ensured that little money was left for the stations.
▪ The hangup here is the enormous cost.
▪ Without the enormous costs run up by the Royal Navy vessel, the Yard would have made profits of £6.5m.
▪ Conservation measures of this kind help to explain the enormous cost of both wetland and underwater archaeology.
▪ There is an enormous cost in terms of both human tragedy and the economic implications, through days lost through sickness and ill health.
▪ Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost.
▪ The enormous cost of contested libel actions means that most plaintiffs will need financial support from unions or employers.
difference
▪ It is also true that responses are a function of enormous differences between and within individuals.
▪ As with any complex electronic information system or service, a strong support structure can make an enormous difference in customer satisfaction.
▪ Litigation itself brings them face to face with the enormous differences between the theory and practice of law.
▪ About fifteen minutes a day for a week or two usually makes an enormous difference.
▪ There is an enormous difference in the child-mortality figures.
▪ Creating a mentor relationship with a child from this back-ground can make an enormous difference in his life.
▪ It's made an enormous difference to the way I go about my work.
▪ This makes for an enormous difference.
difficulty
▪ These and the other changes presented enormous difficulties in the immediate post-war years.
▪ We have had enormous difficulties in enforcing our authority....
▪ Even that would cause enormous difficulties.
▪ This means that either President Bush or President Gore would have enormous difficulty getting his showcase campaign proposals through the legislature.
▪ There were enormous difficulties, equally, in the sphere of cultural policy and minority rights.
effort
▪ She had returned to bed and Belinda could see that she was making an enormous effort to remain calm.
▪ The same freedom from job limits that unleashes enormous effort also encourages people to overextend themselves.
▪ Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.
▪ It is perhaps not fortuitous that Stein made the enormous effort to revive the publication when he did.
▪ Then, with an enormous effort of will, he followed them.
▪ But no one denies that it will take enormous effort to keep her stimulated and well.
▪ This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition.
growth
▪ Social class inequalities, however, remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure.
▪ This change would not have been possible without the enormous growth of towns.
▪ This is reflected in the enormous growth of micro usage in these areas and especially in the field of robotics.
▪ As a result, the Internet is seeing enormous growth in the number of people and businesses using its services.
▪ The extent of economic globalisation is illustrated by the recent enormous growth in trade and foreign capital flows.
▪ They reveal an enormous growth in this sector.
▪ So nitrate from the enormous growth in artificial fertiliser applications is rapidly leached away.
▪ It is also a fact that the party has seen enormous growth in the polls lately.
impact
▪ Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.
▪ Christine's campaign has had enormous impact and we are proud that our report of it has had some impact too.
▪ Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
▪ Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher.
▪ When supercontinents break apart, they have an enormous impact on the volume of water the global oceans can hold.
▪ Clearly, the publication of the General Theory in 1936 had an enormous impact on both economic theory and policy-making.
▪ The fate of Father Damien in Hawaii had an enormous impact on Western thinking about leprosy.
importance
▪ Of enormous importance, Holmes: all the hopes of modern medicine depend upon it.
▪ First impressions are of enormous importance.
▪ We should by now have demonstrated to your satisfaction the enormous importance of the process of settlement.
▪ It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army.
▪ And this good nature has its own enormous importance.
▪ Like him, I attach enormous importance to humanities research.
▪ However the necessary skills within the body language component are also of enormous importance.
increase
▪ In the early 1970s the concern was with the enormous increase in planning applications and planning appeals.
▪ The rates for men showed enormous increases while those for women remained stable or rose very slowly.
▪ In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments.
▪ First, there has been an enormous increase in the pressure on the parks.
▪ So the election produced an enormous increase in at least minimal awareness of local candidates.
▪ There had been an enormous increase in the accuracy and destructiveness of all munitions, owing to the introduction of information technologies.
▪ And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
▪ The enormous increase in broadcast hours is easy enough to observe.
influence
▪ Culturally dominant and playing a pervasive role in the everyday life of élite and masses alike, it wielded enormous influence.
▪ Avoidance of injury will have an enormous influence on the success of the tour.
▪ Compared to this enormous influence of personal prejudice the influence of the media on economic perceptions was small but none the less significant.
interest
▪ The implications of the work at Wharram Percy are of enormous interest for our understanding of how settlements and the landscape developed.
▪ Firstly, the results of their work are of enormous interest in themselves.
number
▪ IIC.4 An enormous number of booklists was supplied.
▪ Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
▪ I produce an enormous number of drafts of my stories, that is important.
▪ We will still be left with an enormous number of kids who will not get the coverage they should have.
▪ That 90 percent of women are afraid to go out alone at night represents enormous numbers of journeys avoided and trips foregone.
▪ But an enormous number of homosexuals have clearly been recruited from the ranks of the physically normal.
▪ Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
numbers
▪ That 90 percent of women are afraid to go out alone at night represents enormous numbers of journeys avoided and trips foregone.
▪ Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
▪ And the unhappy customer base stayed loyal in enormous numbers so that the company is now reaping the benefit.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
▪ In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
▪ One view of the future of work is that large firms will not employ the enormous numbers of people they employ today.
▪ Of course, some political awareness had begun to reach the airline industry, with its enormous numbers of women employees.
popularity
▪ In spite of her enormous popularity and the huge attraction she held for men throughout her life she remained incredibly insecure.
▪ The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
▪ In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.
▪ These are all reasons for Schiffer's enormous popularity.
▪ Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.
▪ The museum authorities wanted the work removed after the filming was completed despite the statue's enormous popularity.
▪ These, as they appeared one by one in the pages of the Strand Magazine, attracted enormous popularity.
potential
▪ It's a lively and cosmopolitan resort, which as well as being scenic, offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast.
▪ The new generation of telecommunications holds enormous potential to serve the needs of democracy.
▪ It will be appreciated that this technique of automated teaching seemed to have enormous potential.
▪ It is a world unexplored by many-a new frontier in contemporary gastronomy with enormous potential.
▪ A client of enormous potential if he managed to hook him.
▪ This is largely because of its enormous potential for dating geological processes and sedimentary sequences.
▪ Yet a walk into any delicatessen or a continental charcuterie will prove the enormous potential of this vastly underrated animal.
▪ Assistant Principal, Joe Mooney sees enormous potential for the open learning format with foreign students.
power
▪ These developments concentrated enormous power in the hands of the individual on the throne.
▪ And individuals with the ability to manipulate what is written about a public person have enormous power.
▪ Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility.
▪ The tail of the whale is a thing of beauty, grace and enormous power, Ishmael says.
▪ Above all, covetousness has enormous power and potential to destroy.
▪ Though the central banks wield enormous power, we should not overstate their ability to shape the economy in the long run.
▪ The Duke of Marlborough wielded enormous power in the county.
▪ This insight taught me something about the enormous power that is generated by desiring something very much.
pressure
▪ This puts enormous pressures on staff, who don't always have enough time to do the stock checking.
▪ Parallel to the enormous pressure toward slimness runs the advertising of powerful interests who want to sell food.
▪ All the universities today are under enormous pressure financially.
▪ For some time now, the smokers of the world have been submitted to enormous pressure regarding their habit.
▪ Pupils and staff were under enormous pressure.
▪ This new and expanded role for employees will exert enormous pressures on employees and companies alike to invest in education and retraining.
▪ Ironically, this new scientific perspective comes when young children and parents are under enormous pressure.
▪ This puts enormous pressure on smaller practices'.
problem
▪ This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
▪ Feather pecking can be an enormous problem in all husbandry systems.
▪ However, enormous problems remained: inflation remained high, unemployment was rising and many areas of production were at a standstill.
▪ The proposed method of operation for the benefits system will cause enormous problems for families.
▪ Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome.
▪ The Government keep changing the rules of the game, which creates enormous problems for local authorities.
▪ The sheer timing would also have been an enormous problem.
▪ This causes enormous problems, as the Q.A.L.Y. is so widely accepted, in trying to show that rehabilitation is a benefit.
quantity
▪ We also had with us an immensely heavy steel strongbox which contained enormous quantities of devalued lire.
▪ The manufacture of aluminum as a commercial product requires enormous quantities of electric power.
▪ He dumped an enormous quantity on top of the cereal which covered Rostov's plate.
▪ Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
▪ He could hold in his motions for two weeks and then would pass an enormous quantity under great strain and pain.
▪ I learned enormous quantities to say to myself in bed at night.
range
▪ There is an enormous range of colours available, from bright reds and yellows, through buffs and browns, to purplish-black.
▪ You had to have an enormous range of talent, and the ability to make a joke about virtually anything.
▪ An adapted television set and an ordinary telephone line link the Prestel customer to an enormous range of computer-held information.
▪ Notice that the three forms of power described cover an enormous range of processes.
▪ In contrast, certain tropical peoples grow an enormous range of plant species.
▪ The kitchen was lovely, with an enormous range and an old-fashioned red-brick floor.
▪ Three parallel conferences covering an enormous range of art historical material take place this year.
▪ They cover an enormous range of religious, social, academic, political and cultural interests.
success
▪ His first response to the enormous success of Tubular Bells was to undergo a minor nervous breakdown.
▪ The march has been an enormous success.
▪ The meeting was an enormous success.
▪ From No. v on it was an enormous success, and inaugurated monthly shilling numbers as a method of publishing new fiction.
▪ The Soviet season, for example, was an enormous success.
sum
▪ Virtually all Third World countries were Spending enormous sums on war or preparation for war, despite staggering debts and dreadful poverty.
▪ Lawyers are really expert at making you pay enormous sums for their advice.
variety
▪ Besides these there is an enormous variety of miscellaneous applications ranging from architectural models through elegant furniture to engineering components.
▪ There is enormous variety to this public-interest assignment.
▪ Among the enormous varieties of weaving patterns, there are two that we must pay particular attention to.
▪ Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom.
▪ Within each river there are an enormous variety of habitats and this causes fish populations to assume highly localised distributions.
▪ Three basic pieces of equipment will enable you to perform an enormous variety of exercises to improve your physique or figure.
▪ Over that time, it must have been cooked in an enormous variety of ways.
▪ Take advantage of the enormous variety of fruit now to be found in the shops.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
huge/enormous great
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He has an enormous amount of work to finish before Friday.
▪ Their house is enormous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the tenth century the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.
▪ It gives you enormous mood swings, which nobody told me about.
▪ Talk is of enormous relevance in understanding status and in developing your own powers of influence.
▪ The conceptual problems of such a model are enormous.
▪ The passive smoking issue holds enormous fears for the tobacco industry.
▪ The properties of meteorites tell us an enormous amount about the properties of asteroids.
▪ The River was an enormous and immediate popular and critical success.
▪ Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enormous

Enormous \E*nor"mous\, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See Normal.]

  1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. ``Enormous bliss.''
    --Milton. ``This enormous state.''
    --Shak. ``The hoop's enormous size.''
    --Jenyns.

    Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
    --Milton.

  2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

    That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
    --Bale.

    Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous.

    Usage: -- Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. ``Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor.''
    --V. Knox. ``Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive.''
    --La Rochefoucauld (Trans).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enormous

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. Meaning "extraordinary in size" is attested from 1540s; original sense of "outrageous" is more clearly preserved in enormity. Earlier was enormyous (mid-15c.) "exceedingly great, monstrous." Related: Enormously; enormousness.

Wiktionary
enormous

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.

WordNet
enormous

adj. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: tremendous]

Wikipedia
Enormous (band)

Enormous is an English Indie power pop band from Derby, England.

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.