biggish

adjective

big·​gish ˈbi-gish How to pronounce biggish (audio)
: somewhat big

Examples of biggish in a Sentence

a rather biggish table for a dining room of modest dimensions a biggish wart that should be removed
Recent Examples on the Web This is a pretty reasonable price for a biggish 1,060-piece set that looks like a relatively simple build with a ton of minifigs. Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023 A day after that biggish event, those sunspots burped again, this time with a lower-power M-class flare. Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2011 Today’s biggish buildings are mountainous; even run-of-the-mill towers compete with the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021 James Harden and the Houston Rockets, who will test their insanely small lineup and 2-0 bubble record against the biggish Blazers. oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020 Only now, though, has the Roundabout Theatre Company deigned to give Mr. Fuller’s play a biggish-budget Broadway production starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood and staged by Kenny Leon, Broadway’s top black director. Terry Teachout, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020 Dr Ding reckons that recycling waste heat in this way will increase the efficiency of biggish cryogenic-energy-storage plants to at least 69%. The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019 The raciest bets that foreigners have made are on the bonds of policy banks, such as the China Development Bank, and on short-term paper issued by biggish provincial banks. The Economist, 28 June 2018 Midsized and biggish bio-pharma firms, for instance, have done far better than the very largest ones. The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of biggish was in 1611

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“Biggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biggish. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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