humongous

adjective

hu·​mon·​gous hyü-ˈməŋ-gəs 

yü-,

-ˈmäŋ-

variants or less commonly humungous

hyü-ˈməŋ-gəs 

: extremely large : huge

a humongous building

humongous amounts of money

Synonyms

• astronomical
• astronomic
• Brobdingnagian
• bumper
• colossal
• cosmic
• cosmical
• cyclopean
• elephantine
• enormous
• galactic
• gargantuan
• giant
• gigantesque
• gigantic
• grand
• herculean
• heroic
• heroical
• Himalayan
• huge
• immense
• jumbo
• king-size
• king-sized
• leviathan
• mammoth
• massive
• mega
• mighty
• monster
• monstrous
• monumental
• mountainous
• oceanic
• pharaonic
• planetary
• prodigious
• super
• super-duper
• supersize
• supersized
• titanic
• tremendous
• vast
• vasty
• walloping
• whacking
• whopping

Examples of humongous in a Sentence

a humongous dish of ice cream

I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch.

Recent Examples on the Web

Like the social stability of these people who had just gone through a humongous trauma, must be on the edge, don't know what's going to happen, completely insecure. —Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025

So stick that cufflink in your hair, wrap that thick chain around your ankle, rock that humongous initial ring. —Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025

After a four-hour battle, an angler in Texas reeled in a humongous fish that will likely set a new world record. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025

The mystery is three-dimensional: The humongous number of parameters obscuring what the model can do; the open data, internet data, on which the model is based (as opposed to in-house, clean data); and the source, the origin of the model’s development. —Gil Press, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

perhaps alteration of huge + monstrous

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above