humongous
adjective
hu·mon·gous
hyü-ˈməŋ-gəs 
yü-,
-ˈmäŋ-
variants
or less commonly humungous
: 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
The iPhone is already a humongous platform for games, which happened even despite things like Apple’s platform fees and restrictions on cloud gaming.
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
The lead rapidly grew larger than the humongous screen that hangs over the field at AT&T Stadium; larger than the 535,000-acre Texas ranch Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased in 2016.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
The production lights glared off of Ebert’s humongous eyeglasses.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The inside is home to a humongous internal 16K-resolution screen, with haptic, audio and temperature features meant to be targeted to each member of the audience during live performances.
—Rebecca Heilweil, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Throughout the universe, galaxies collide and combine in unimaginably humongous calamities.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
Together the dynamic duo has fueled the most ginormous collective box office weekend of the pandemic era and the fourth most humongous weekend in cinematic history.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
Like the humongous going-out-of-business furniture store where Mother, Couch takes place, the movie is a collection of intriguing pieces that mostly sit there unassembled or out of context, their potential unfulfilled.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
The game also brings some interesting new twists on series mainstays, like the guardian / summon characters being humongous kaiju-like creatures that fight in big, cinematic battles.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
The lead rapidly grew larger than the humongous screen that hangs over the field at AT&T Stadium; larger than the 535,000-acre Texas ranch Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased in 2016.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
The production lights glared off of Ebert’s humongous eyeglasses.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The inside is home to a humongous internal 16K-resolution screen, with haptic, audio and temperature features meant to be targeted to each member of the audience during live performances.
—Rebecca Heilweil, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Throughout the universe, galaxies collide and combine in unimaginably humongous calamities.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
Together the dynamic duo has fueled the most ginormous collective box office weekend of the pandemic era and the fourth most humongous weekend in cinematic history.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
Like the humongous going-out-of-business furniture store where Mother, Couch takes place, the movie is a collection of intriguing pieces that mostly sit there unassembled or out of context, their potential unfulfilled.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
The game also brings some interesting new twists on series mainstays, like the guardian / summon characters being humongous kaiju-like creatures that fight in big, cinematic battles.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
perhaps alteration of huge + monstrous
First Known Use
1964, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near humongous
Cite this Entry
“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humongous. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
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