big

1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

synset: large, big

antonym: small, little

2. significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"

3. very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"

synset: bad, big

4. loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"

5. conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"

synset: big, large, prominent

6. prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"

synset: big, heavy

7. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

synset: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising

8. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

synset: big, swelled, vainglorious

9. (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"

synset: adult, big, full-grown, fully_grown, grown, grownup

10. marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"

11. generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"

synset: big, large, magnanimous

12. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

synset: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded

13. in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"

synset: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with_child

1. extremely well; "his performance went over big"

2. in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"

synset: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large

3. on a grand scale; "think big"

4. in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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