Definition of HUGEST

Examples of huge in a Sentence

Renovating the house is a huge undertaking.
The store is having a huge sale tomorrow.

Recent Examples of huge from the Web

An offer would be huge for Love, a lifelong Alabama fan.

— matt zenitz, AL.com, "Redshirt freshman LB no longer with Alabama program", 1 June 2017
What’s more, over the haul, climate change itself threatens to impose huge costs on the economy.

— paul wiseman, The Seattle Times, "Analysts: Leaving climate deal likely wouldn’t add US jobs", 31 May 2017
A developer of luxury homes has pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor charges stemming from construction of a huge Bel Air mansion that the city says has extensive features that were never approved.

— associated press, Washington Post, "Developer pleads no contest in Los Angeles mega mansion case", 31 May 2017
Clay Thompson, the first batter to face Torres, had a huge at-bat.

— mike hutton, Post-Tribune, "Walk-off wonder: Joe Rycerz double lifts Andrean past Chesterton for sectional", 29 May 2017
But despite a huge health care reform plan, its public hospitals are overburdened, with too few beds and doctors to deliver the kind of care that many in the West take for granted.

— sui-lee wee, New York Times, "China’s Ill, and Wealthy, Look Abroad for Medical Treatment", 29 May 2017
In Sioux City, an afternoon's drive from the Humeston pig farm, Seaboard Triumph Foods is building a huge, $300 million plant that will span almost a million square feet and process upward of 20,000 hogs a day.

— caitlin dewey, chicagotribune.com, "Why Americans are eating more pork now than they have in decades", 26 May 2017
Under the grass, beneath a clay cap behind a chain link fence, are huge amounts of hazardous chemicals in concentrations that could pose a major health risk to humans and wildlife.

— charles p. pierce, Esquire, "Jesus Saves, and Probably in the Cayman Islands", 25 May 2017
A gigantic new research submarine designed by Russia will travel underneath ice floes, mapping its underwater surroundings with a pair of huge plane-like wings.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Russia's Gigantic New Submarine Has Enormous "Wings"", 23 May 2017

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Origin and Etymology of huge

Middle English, from Old French ahuge

First Known Use: 12th century

huge Synonyms

Synonym Discussion of huge

enormous, immense, huge, vast, gigantic, colossal, mammoth mean exceedingly large. enormous and immense both suggest an exceeding of all ordinary bounds in size or amount or degree, but enormous often adds an implication of abnormality or monstrousness. an enormous expense an immense shopping mall huge commonly suggests an immensity of bulk or amount. incurred a huge debt vast usually suggests immensity of extent. the vast Russian steppes gigantic stresses the contrast with the size of others of the same kind. a gigantic sports stadium colossal applies especially to a human creation of stupendous or incredible dimensions. a colossal statue of Lincoln mammoth suggests both hugeness and ponderousness of bulk. a mammoth boulder

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