enormous
adjective
enor·mous
i-ˈnȯr-məs 
ē-
1
: marked by extraordinarily great size, number, or degree
especially
: exceeding usual bounds or accepted notions
2
a
: exceedingly wicked : shocking
an enormous sin
b
archaic
: abnormal, inordinate
enormousness
noun
Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of enormous in a Sentence
They live in an enormous house.
We chose not to undertake the project because of the enormous costs involved.
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John Blake, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
This guy Puffy, this guy is in an enormous amount of trouble.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Tiny, delicate agnolotti are filled with parsley root and cream and presented beneath enormous pieces of crabmeat and a dusting of crushed Ritz crackers.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Already, the fighting has ceased in Gaza which provides enormous relief to the people there who have been living in very difficult circumstances now for more than a year, not to mention the just unconscionable circumstances the hostages have found themselves in.
—ABC News, 19 Jan. 2025
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“Enormous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormous. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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enormous
adjective
enor·mous
i-ˈnȯr-məs
: extraordinarily great in size, number, or degree
enormously
adverb
enormousness
noun
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