Enormous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: e=nor=mous

CIDE DICTIONARY

Enormous, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out + norma rule: cf. F. énorme. See Normal.].

•  Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.  Jenyns.  [1913 Webster]

  "Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait."  [1913 Webster]
•  Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.  [1913 Webster]

  "That detestable profession of a life so enormous."

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Enormous, adj. very large; huge (enormous animals; an enormous difference).

Derivative

enormously adv. enormousness n.

Etymology

L enormis (as E-, norma pattern, standard)

THESAURUS

Enormous

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, abysmal, amplitudinous, arrant, astronomic, astronomical, atrocious, awesome, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, boundless, brutal, bulky, colossal, contemptible, cosmic, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, elephantine, epic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gluttonous, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, heroic, high, horrible, horrid, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, incontinent, infamous, infinite, inordinate, intemperate, jumbo, king-size, lamentable, large, loathsome, lousy, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, pitiable, pitiful, prodigious, profound, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sizable, sordid, spacious, squalid, steep, stiff, stupendous, terrible, titanic, too bad, too much, towering, tremendous, unbridled, unclean, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained, vast, vile, villainous, voluminous, weighty, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

ROGET THESAURUS

Enormous

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.