Huge

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Huge \Huge\, a. [Compar. {Huger}; superl. {Hugest}.] [OE. huge,
     hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
     Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of
     material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a
     huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge
     confusion." --Chapman. "A huge filly." --Jer. Taylor. --


     {Huge"ly}, adv. -- {Huge"ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.   --Shak.
  
     Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  huge
       adj : unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
             extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge
             country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher
             education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct
             winds like an immense snake along the base of the
             mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or
             immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space";
             "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call
             civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {immense}, {vast}, {Brobdingnagian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "huge":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome,
     boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic,
     extensive, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great,
     heroic, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large,
     leviathan, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound,
     sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast,
     voluminous, weighty, whopping