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

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

Colossal has announced plans to re-create a number of extinct animals, most prominently the humongous woolly mammoth. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

perhaps alteration of huge + monstrous

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above