huge
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.R.Inge
- "huge government spending"
- "huge country estates"
- "huge popular demand for higher education"
- "a huge wave"
Adj
- Very large.
- Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
- Very interesting, significant, or popular.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkaras (“hill”), Old High German hōh (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English hēah (“high”). More at high.
Synonyms
ample, astronomic, behemothic, big, big fat, bodacious, boxcar, broad, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, Pythonic, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titanic, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge
Scrabble Score: 8
huge is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordhuge is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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