MAGNITUDE Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

magnitude

noun

ˈmag-nə-ˌtüd

Definition of magnitude

as in significance

the quality or state of being important the magnitude of the issue can scarcely be overstated

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as in vastness

the quality or state of being very large the mountain's sheer magnitude usually leaves tourists speechless

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as in size

the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something the magnitude of the planned skyscraper is totally disproportionate with that of the other buildings on the block

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Recent Examples of magnitude Marginal work is important due to its magnitude and because although those jobs look standard, they are designed to be disposable. — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 The back-to-back quakes that shook Venezuela in June and left more than 6,000 people dead each had a magnitude above 7. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Aug. 2026 There’s one detail in that scene that captures the magnitude of the moment. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 Quakes such as Monday’s in Colombia are measured on a magnitude scale. — Jhasua Razo, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for magnitude

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Noun

Chris Levesque, TerraPower president and CEO, stressed the deal’s significance for the company.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Abdurrahman Amer, a festival official, noted the significance of the exhibition.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of significance

Noun

Nothing but verdant grey hills, sheep, and waist-high walls of ancient stones that vanished into the vastness of the landscape.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
The reef itself becomes the subject, inviting viewers to imagine its vastness from the perspective of one of its smallest inhabitants.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of vastness

Noun

And yet while some clubs of a similar size were happy to keep selling players to re-invest, Tottenham generally only did so with first-team players in very specific circumstances.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Leathers said the fourth thing to check for is that the boat has the appropriate number of life jackets and sizes for the passengers on board.

— Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of size

Noun

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said keeping gas prices low and ensuring Iran never gets a hold of a nuclear weapon are of equal importance to the president.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Getting losses down is of paramount importance to those clubs further down the pyramid, where Premier League riches are so far out of reach as to be a pipe dream.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of importance

Noun

Take in the 55-foot-high arches with their 29,000 Guastavino ceiling tiles, the larger-than-life windows, and try, just try, to reckon with the immensity of Detroit's story.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
But Supergirl doesn’t quite want to deal with the immensity of its protagonist’s feelings; her drunken stupor is often played for laughs, defined by disheveled hair, big sunglasses, and plenty of slurred speech.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Definition of immensity

Noun

Part of that will depend on whether Black, whom the new staff thinks has the physical dimensions to be a high-level nose tackle, ends up playing well over the center, which would allow the Steelers at times to shift Benton over.

— Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
There is a framework being developed in parallel to recognize the global greater-good dimension.

— Mike Feibus, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of dimension

Noun

China’s imports of LNG from Russia across all routes surged nearly 28% in the first half of the year by volume as LNG exports from the Middle East froze due to the US-Iran war.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Japan's core consumer inflation remained above the central bank's 2% target for a third straight month in June, as the economy faced pressure from high global raw material prices that have pushed up the cost of the country's imports.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of import

Noun

The script brilliantly lays that out to counteract some of the hugeness of her character.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.

— Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of hugeness

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