Huge

Definition: Huge

Huge

Adjective

1. 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.

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Date "huge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Huge \Huge\, adjective. [Comparative Huger; superlative Hugest.]. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Huge

Greatness

Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Crosswords: Huge

He's got a huge talent (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Well he's got huge sharp, eh, he can leap about, look at the bones (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Only the other day I was just dozing off and I felt this huge (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

To a ten year old I'm huge. (Hook; writing credit: James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Based on the play 'Peter Pan' by J.M. Barrie.)

They were a huge influence on the Beatles (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

Those huge baby eyes get to runnin off at they mouth (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

Huge Grant on the Sunset Strip (1995)

The Biggest of Wild Bill's Huge Ladies (1991)

Huge Ladies 10: Big Girl Workout (1988)

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Books

• Grow: A 28-Day Crash Course for Getting Huge (reference)

• How to Avoid Huge Ships (reference)

• Huge 2: A New Collection of Erotic Tales (reference)

• The Factory: A Tiny Huge Collection of Cool and Crazy Facts (reference)

• The Huge Book of Hell (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Your Potential is Huge (reference)

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Music

• Huge (reference)

• Wee Tam / Big Huge (reference)

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High Tech

• Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Guettle Die Huge Dust Pan (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Huge tire, Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding site, McAllen, Texas. Credit: CDC.

A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope ... Credit: NASA.

A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into ... Credit: NASA.

Huge fires on the island of Borneo on 1997 September 22 05:10 UT, asviewed by the NOAA-14 Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). The image is based on Global AreaCoverage (GAC) data at 4km resolution. More images of these fires areavailable from the Centre for RemoteImaging, Sensing and Processing at the National University of Singapore. Credit: NASA.

The Parana River delta is a huge forested marshland about 32km northeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area is a very popular tour destination. Guided boat tours can be taken into this vast labyrinth of marsh and trees. The Parana River delta is one of the world's greatest bird-watching destinations. This image highlights the striking contrast between dense forest and wetland marshes, and the deep blue ribbon of the Parana River. Credit: NASA.

Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #6 Increasing detail of lower canyon including huge meander From "Submarine Canyons" by Shepard and Dill. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Ridge to south of Pioneer Seamount Turbidity currents debouch from Pioneer Canyon, strike ridge, and are deflected Huge dune structures are formed which extend many miles to the south. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Kayaker observing the marsh flora and fauna on a fall afternoon. A huge flock of redwing blackbirds rising from the marsh over the marsh grass. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking through a slot in the cliffs south of Davenport. Huge surf rebounds off the cliffs and builds even larger interference patterns in the incoming surf. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Huge surf breaking a 1/4 mile offshore. Approximately 30-40 miles north of Santa Cruz. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

With huge umbrella, lank and brown, Unerringly she pinned it down, Right through the centre of the crown

Two or three of these columns had disappeared in the fires of these bivouacs, and had warmed the huge hands of the kaiserlics

A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easychair beside the bed.

And along the highway there came a long line of huge freight trucks with red sides

In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we the searchers were not able to lift

With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city

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Health

A gene is a working subunit of DNA.    DNA is like a huge database, made up of millions of chemical building blocks. (references)

Although the common cold may never be uncommon, further investigations offer the hope of reducing the huge burden of this universal problem. (references)

When genes are working properly, our bodies develop correctly and work well. But small changes, or mutations, in just one gene sometimes can have huge effects, leading to birth defects and other diseases. (references)

Business

Mexico has a huge housing deficit. (references)

The medicine market is huge in China. (references)

The Greek cellular telephony market is a huge success story. (references)

Civil Liberties

Brazil

The ANJ and newspaper owners throughout the country have complained about judges who have imposed huge fines and jail terms against newspapers for "moral damage" that appear aimed at crippling news organizations. (references)

Economic History

India

India has huge gas deficits. (references)

Eritrea

This generated a huge economic burden on the country. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

A lack of resources and a huge backlog of unresolved cases provided a convenient excuse for judicial inaction. (references)

Political Economy

Suriname

Lengthy pretrial detention is a problem, and the judiciary suffers from ineffectiveness and a huge case backlog. (references)

Turkmenistan

It is largely a desert with cattle and sheep raising, intensive agriculture in irrigated areas, and huge oil and gas reserves. (references)

Trade

Djibouti

A huge warehouse facility, the Djibouti Dry Port, is designed to free-up limited port storage. (references)

Taiwan

In the public sector, the Taiwan authorities rely heavily on bond issuance to cover the huge outlays connected with construction of major public works. (references)

Qatar

However, some restrictions exist in case of sudden transfer of relatively huge amounts, as well as in cases where money laundering calls for official intervention. (references)

Women

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

This resulted in a huge backlog of appeal cases and effectively reduced the number of mothers and children receiving support payments. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

Workers often are reluctant to contest these actions because of the huge backlog in the Labor Tribunals. (references)

Ukraine

Independent unions have been denied a share of the former Soviet trade unions' huge property and financial holdings, especially the social insurance benefits funds, a Soviet-era legacy on whose boards FPU-affiliated unions hold the majority of seats. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "huge": draw a huge crowd ♦ huge figure ♦ huge mistake ♦ huge stone ♦ what a huge house!. Additional references.

Beginning with "huge": huge-capacity, huge-eyed, huge-flowered, huge-mouthed, huge-pocketed, huge-quiffed, huge-tusked, huge-tyred.

Afrikaans

geweldig (enormous, immense), enorm (enormous, immense). (various references)

Albanian

vigan (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantesque, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering), i stërmadh (monster, monstrous, prodigious), i pamatshëm (fathomless, immeasurable, imponderable, measureless), i bujshëm (sensational, whacking), gjigant (abnormal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, monster). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جبار (colossal, giant, powerful, strong man, superhuman, titanic, tremendous), ‏بكل ضخامة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

грамаден (enormous, exceeding, immeasurable, immense, lumping, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Chinese 

巨大 (enormous, gigantic, immense, tremendous, very large). (various references)

Czech

horentní (excessive, exorbitant, ruinous), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), obrovský (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, howling, immense, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, tremendous, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), kolosální (colossal, enormous, monstrous, monumental), kapitální, enormní (formidable, immense, vast). (various references)

Danish

kolossal (colossal). (various references)

Dutch

reusachtig (colossal, gigantic), gigantisch (enormous, gigantic, immense). (various references)

Esperanto

kolosa (colossal), grandega (enormous, immense), giganta (gigantic). (various references)

Faeroese

risastórur (enormous, immense). (various references)

Farsi 

کلان (Immense, Massive), گنده (Massive, Unwieldy, Whopper), تنومند (Burly, Corpulent, Robust, Rugged, Stalwart, Sturdy), سترگ (Large), بزرگ جثه . (various references)

Finnish

huikea, valtava (enormous, immense, tremendous), suunnaton (colossal, enormous, immense, vast), mahdottoman suuri (enormous), ääretön (boundless, endless, enormous, immense, infinite, vast). (various references)

French

vaste (hugely), immense (hulking), énorme. (various references)

Frisian

gigantysk (gigantic). (various references)

German

riesig (colossal, enormous, enormously, gargantuan, giant, giantly, gigantic, hugely, immeasurable, immense, immensely, jumbo, mammoth, mammothly, massive, monolithic, monstrous, mountainous, sprawling, tremendous, tremendously, vast, walloping), gewaltig (colossal, enormous, epic, formidable, grand, heroic, hugely, immense, massive, mightily, mighty, monumental, mountainous, mountainously, portentous, powerful, prodigious, ravenous, resounding, rude, shattering, towering, tremendous, vast, vastly, violent, walloping). (various references)

Greek 

γιγαντόσωμοσ, πελώριοσ (gigantic, mammoth, monumental, thumping), πελώριος (monumental), παμμέγεθησ (immense), υπερμεγέθησ (bloated, champion, enormous, king size, oversize), τεράστιοσ (enormous, gargantuan, monster, prodigious, stupendous), τεράστιος (immense, massive, prodigious, vast), θεόρατοσ (enormous, giant, gigantic). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, immense, massive, mighty, strength, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), ענקי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, immense, mammoth, stupendous, walloping), כביר (enormous, grand, immense, mighty, stupendous, terrific, thundering, tremendous). (various references)

Hungarian

hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, mighty, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic, vast), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Indonesian

sangat besar, kekar (firm, joint (geology term), muscular, solid), besar (august, big, broad, fabulous, great, large). (various references)

Italian

enorme (awful, enormous, gargantuan, immense, mammoth, monster, swingeing, tremendous, walloping, whopping), gigantesco (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, mammoth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨大 (bulky, enormous, expansion, extensive, swelling), 巨大 (enormous, gigantic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おっかない (frightening), きょだい (enormous, gigantic), ぼうだい (bulky, enormous, expansion, extensive, subtitle, swelling), でっかい , でかい , こうだい (extensive, future generations, grand, great, immense, impressive, magnificent, posterity, technical college, vast, very large). (various references)

Korean 

거대한 (Colossal, Enormous, Giant, Gigantic). (various references)

Manx

mooadys (amount, amplitude, artificialness, augmentation, capacity, dimension, extravagance, greatness, increase, largeness, magnitude, size, stature), foawraght. (various references)

Norwegian

veldig (jolly, very), kjempestor. (various references)

Pig Latin

ugehay.(various references)

Polish

olbrzymi (enormous, immense). (various references)

Portuguese

enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping), imenso (big, immeasurable, immense, measureless, mountainous, multitudinous, unmeasured, untold, vast, vasty). (various references)

Romanian

enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping). (various references)

Russian 

громадный (cyclopean, enormous, enourmous, gigantic, hulking, immense, mammoth, mighty, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vast, whaling), огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, immense, knock out, massive, monster, prodigious, terrific, tremendous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, immense, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, tremendous, vast, vasty, whopping), grdan, golem. (various references)

Spanish

vasto (distant, extensive, far, grandiose, great, long, remote, vast, vasty, wide, widely), inmenso (beyond measure, immense, soaring, tremendous), ingente (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, prodigious), grandote (whacking), gigante (gargantuan, giant, gigantic), enorme (cyclopean, egregious, enormous, great, gross, heinous, immense, jumbo, killing, king size, marvellous, marvelous, massive, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, prodigious, swingeing, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking), descomunal (oversize, thumping). (various references)

Swedish

väldig (almighty, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, frantic, grand, immense, mighty, oceanic, swingeing, swinging, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping), kolossal (colossal, enormous, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monumental, sweeping, thumping, tremendous, whacking), jättelik (enormous, giant, gigantic, mammoth, titanic). (various references)

Thai

ใหญ่โต (royal, titanic). (various references)

Turkish

olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), koskocaman (enormous, tremendous, very big, whacking, whaling), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), dev gibi (cyclopean, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantean, gigantic, hugely, mammoth, Titanic), dev (colossal, colossus, cyclopean, giant, giantess, goliath, kingsize, massy, monster, titan), dağ gibi (enormous, mountainous, mountainy), ayı gibi (bearish, ruffianly, ursine). (various references)

Turkmen 

mдhnet (enormous, tremendous), дpet (mighty, powerful), дgirt (very). (various references)

Ukrainian

колосальний (colossal, decuman, monumental, ocean-wide, pyramidal, stupendous, super-duper, terrific), величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, titanic), khổng lồ (colossal, decuman, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, mammoth, monster, thumping, titanesque, titanic), đồ sộ (monumental). (various references)

Welsh

enfawr (enormous, immense), dirfawr (enormous, immense, vast), diffwys (awful, high, steep, waste, wild), aruthrol (prodigious), anferthol, anferth (monstrous), abrwysgl (dreadful). (various references)

u, uru. (various references)

Colosseus, Colossicus, ingens, ingentem, ingentes, ingenti, ingentia, ingentique, pergrandem, vasthi, vastus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "huge": hugely, hugeness, hugenesses, hugeous, hugeously, huger, hugest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Huge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chuge, Euge, haga, hage, Hagee, hagge, hagi, hauge, hege, hegi, heuger, hge, hged, hgg, Hgi, hiege, Higbee, hige, higo, higy, hilge, hoeg, hoga, hoge, hogee, Hogey, hogf, Hogge, hogi, hogie, hogle, Horge, houge, Hougue, huage, hube, Huben, huce, hufe, huga, huged, huges, Hugg, hugge, hugh, Hughe, hugi, hugie, hugies, Hugnet, Hugten, Huie, Huige, hule, hulga, hulge, Hune, Hungo, hupe, Hupeh, hure, hurgh, huse, hute, huug, huve, khuge, nuge, nugee, ouge, phuge, rhuge, thuge, uge, Ugi, uhg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hue, hug, ugh.

-2 letters: eh, he, uh.

+1 letter: heugh, huger, teugh.

+2 letters: enough, gauche, gushed, gusher, gushes, heughs, hugely, hugest, hugged, hugger, hunger, rehung, sheugh, sughed.

+3 letters: bearhug, boughed, burgher, chugged, chugger, coughed, cougher, enoughs, gaucher, ghoulie, gouache, grushie, gulches, gumshoe, gurshes, gushers, gushier, haulage, hegumen, hugeous, huggers, hungers, jughead, laughed, laugher, meshuga, oughted, roughed, roughen, rougher, sheughs, soughed, teughly, theurgy, thuggee, toughed, toughen, tougher, toughie, unhinge.