large /lɑrdʒ/
1. a garment size for a large person
synset: large
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"
2. fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"
synset: large
3. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
synset: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
4. 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
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"
6. having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
synset: large
7. 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. at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
synset: large
2. with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large"
synset: large
3. in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
synset: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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