Definitions for: Enormous


[adj] extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"



Webster (1913) Definition: E*nor"mous, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e
out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See Normal.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due
proportion; inordinate; abnormal. ``Enormous bliss.''
--Milton. ``This enormous state.'' --Shak. ``The hoop's
enormous size.'' --Jenyns.

Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
--Milton.

2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as,
an enormous crime.

That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
--Bale.

Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious;
monstrous.

Usage: -- Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a
thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law
of existence or far exceeds its proper average or
standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in
its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous
strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense
expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable
quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is
beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in
an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an
immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense.
``Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately
excessive rigor.'' --V. Knox. ``Complaisance becomes
servitude when it is excessive.'' --La Rochefoucauld
(Trans).

Synonyms: big, large, tremendous

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