[syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large]
3. on a grand scale;
- Example: "think big"
4. in a major way;
- Example: "the play failed big at the box office"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Big \Big\ (b[i^]g), a. [Compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.]
[Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant,
with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly,
Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent,
excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build,
akin to E. be.]
1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of
great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." --Shak.
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2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth
or produce; -- often figuratively.
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[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
--Addison.
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3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,
distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a
big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied
to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
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God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --Jer.
Taylor.
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Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as,
big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
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To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
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I talked big to them at first. --De Foe.
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Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, v. t. [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to
inhabit, to build, b?a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make
ready. See Boor, and Bound.]
To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg,
Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.)
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
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"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now
with bigg." --New English
Dict.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
big
adv 1: extremely well; "his performance went over big"
2: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn:
boastfully, vauntingly, big, large]
3: on a grand scale; "think big" [ant: small]
4: in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
adj 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" [syn: large, big] [ant: little, small]
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" [syn:
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" [syn: big, large,
prominent]
6: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
[syn: big(a), heavy(a)]
7: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful,
braggart(a), bragging(a), 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" [syn: big,
swelled, vainglorious]
9: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
woman" [syn: 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" [syn: 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" [syn: big,
bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded,
handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
13: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte,
expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p),
with child(p)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "big":
adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash,
awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy,
big cheese, big noise, big shot, big-league, big-name, big-time,
bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull,
bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, cloyed,
clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential,
considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned,
deified, distended, domineering, double-barreled, earthshaking,
elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted,
excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely,
fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified,
glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun,
great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown-up, handsome,
haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic,
high, high and mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed,
high-minded, high-nosed, high-powered, high-sounding,
high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hugely,
hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important,
imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large-scale, largehearted,
liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man-sized,
marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful,
mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble-minded, nubile,
numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded,
overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient,
patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse-proud, replete,
roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied,
self-important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck-up,
stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen,
tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage,
voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world-shaking
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
BIG
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