1.
[syn: massive, monolithic, monumental]
2. being the same substance throughout;
- Example: "massive silver"
3. imposing in scale or scope or degree or power;
- Example: "massive retaliatory power"
- Example: "a massive increase in oil prices"
- Example: "massive changes"
4. consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter;
- Example: "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
massive \mass"ive\ (m[.a]s"[i^]v), a. [F. massif.]
1. Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted;
weighty; heavy; massy. "Massive armor." --Dr. H. More.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Min.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline
structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral
occurs massive.
[1913 Webster]
Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not
distinctly schistose, as granite; also, with some authors,
an eruptive rock.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
massive
adj 1: imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak
doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic
proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental
scale" [syn: massive, monolithic, monumental]
2: being the same substance throughout; "massive silver"
3: imposing in scale or scope or degree or power; "massive
retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices";
"massive changes"
4: consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of
matter; "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial
planets"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "massive":
Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, adamantine, amplitudinous,
astronomical, awesome, awkward, big, boundless, broad-bodied,
bulky, bullnecked, burdensome, close, close-knit, close-textured,
close-woven, clumsy, coarse, colossal, compact, compacted,
compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested,
consolidated, corpulent, cosmic, cracking, crammed, crammed full,
crass, crowded, cumbersome, cumbrous, dense, durable, elephantine,
enduring, enormous, extensive, fantastic, fat, firm, full,
full-bodied, galactic, gargantuan, gigantic, gluey, grand, gross,
hard, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, hulky,
humongous, immeasurable, immense, impenetrable, impermeable,
incumbent, infinite, jam-packed, jammed, jumbo, king-size, large,
lasting, leaden, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, mammoth,
massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mortal, mountainous,
nonporous, onerous, oppressive, outsize, overgrown, oversized,
overweight, packed, ponderous, prodigious, rugged, serried,
sizable, solid, sound, spacious, stable, steady, stout, strong,
stupendous, sturdy, substantial, superincumbent, thick,
thick-bodied, thick-growing, thickset, three-dimensional, titanic,
tough, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, unyielding, vast, viscid,
viscose, viscous, voluminous, walloping, weighty, well-built,
well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made,
whopping