Crossword clues for larger
larger
- Hardy, vis-a-vis Laurel
- More sweeping
- More blown-up
- Minnesota, vis-à-vis Nebraska
- Trenta vis-à-vis Tall
- Texas vis-a-vis Rhode Island
- More stupendous
- More bulky
- Like South Dakota vis-à-vis North Dakota
- Like nickels, to dimes
- Like L vis-à-vis XL, in some cases
- Like AA batteries vis-a-vis AAA batteries
- Having greater girth
- Hares' ears, vis-à-vis rabbits'
- Hardy, compared to Laurel
- -- than life
- ___ than life
- More capacious
- Like XX vis-Г -vis X, sizewise
- Like South Dakota vis-Г -vis North Dakota
- Like XX vis-à-vis X, sizewise
- Alaska, in relation to Texas
- More spacious
- Greater in size
- More extensive
- "The ___ heart, the kindlier hand": Tennyson
- Bigger beer about right!
- Bigger beer round back of bar
- More substantial
- More bombastic
- More puffed up
- Not as small
- More sizable
- More massive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Large \Large\ (l[aum]rj), a. [Compar. Larger (l[aum]r"j[~e]r); superl. Largest.] [F., fr. L. largus. Cf. Largo.]
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Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.
Note: For linear dimensions, and mere extent, great, and not large, is used as a qualifying word; as, great length, breadth, depth; a great distance; a great height.
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Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.
We have yet large day.
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Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.
I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
--Felton. Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.
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Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.]
Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.
--Fairfax. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] ``Some large jests he will make.''
--Shak.Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.]
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(Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large.
Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large.
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Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large.
Common at large. See under Common, n.
Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.]
To give large, To go large, To run large, or To sail large (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See Large, a., 8.
Syn: Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample; abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive; liberal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
comparative of large (q.v.).
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: large)
WordNet
adj. large or big relative to something else [syn: bigger]
Usage examples of "larger".
The leaves, which are rather larger than a shilling, fleshy, cupped, and glaucous, are curiously arranged on the stems, somewhat reflexed, and otherwise twisted at their axils, presenting a flattened but pleasing appearance.
The bulbs are a little larger than the kernel of a cob nut, nearly round, having satiny skins or coats.
The outer corolla is much shorter, crumpled, rolled back, and somewhat marked with green, as if intermediate in its nature between the larger corolla and the calyx.
I have found it to produce larger leaves of plainer shape and more even colour.
The most striking distinctions are the pale green colour of the young leaves contrasting with the bronzed appearance of the older ones, and the larger size of its flowers, which, however, are green.
The varieties differ much in the foliage as well as the flowers, some being much larger, and of a dark brown or reddish colour.
The foliage in form resembles the common vetch, but is rather larger in the leaflets, and instead of being downy like the vetch, the leaves are smooth and bright.
Sometimes the leaves are as large as a full-grown polyanthus leaf, whilst other plants, which have flowered equally well, have not produced foliage larger than that of primroses, when having their earliest flowers.
There are larger yellow Composites, but either they are much later, or they are not perennial species, and otherwise this one differs materially from them.
This practice of top dressing greatly assists the parts touching the earth to root, and so either an increased stock or larger specimens may sooner be obtained.
Firekeeper could tell that considerable preparation had been done with the specific intent of moving Blind Seer from the riverboat to the larger ocean vessel.
Waln was from the Isles, the group of five larger and many smaller islands east of both Hawk Haven and Bright Bay.
They were large snakes, larger than most she had encountered, even in the wild lands west of the Iron Mountains.
There are several islands, most close enough that the larger animals can swim between them.
Fox Hair that even through the reek of horse and the scent of burning wax J can tell that no one larger than a rabbit is near.