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- there will be a big meeting to resolve the issue
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- bought a big apple to quench his raging appetite
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- astronomical
- (also astronomic),
- Brobdingnagian,
- bumper,
- Bunyanesque,
- cavernous,
- colossal,
- cosmic
- (also cosmical),
- cyclopean,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- galactic,
- gargantuan,
- gigantic,
- gross,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- heroic
- (also heroical),
- Himalayan,
- huge,
- humongous
- (also humungous),
- immense,
- jumbo,
- king-size
- (or king-sized),
- leviathan,
- major,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- monolithic,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- pharaonic,
- prodigious,
- staggering,
- stupendous,
- super,
- super-duper,
- supersized,
- titanic,
- tremendous,
- vast,
- vasty,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whopping
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- diminutive,
- half-pint,
- infinitesimal,
- Lilliputian,
- little bitty,
- microminiature,
- microscopic
- (also microscopical),
- mini,
- miniature,
- minuscule,
- minute,
- pint-size
- (or pint-sized),
- pocket-size
- (also pocket-sized),
- pygmy,
- teensy,
- teensy-weensy,
- teeny,
- teeny-weeny,
- tiny,
- wee
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- how big of you to give your subordinates most of the credit
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- inexperienced wine drinkers should not start with such a big wine
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- the big story that year was the election of the president
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- arch,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- chief,
- dominant,
- first,
- foremost,
- grand,
- great,
- greatest,
- highest,
- key,
- leading,
- main,
- master,
- number one
- (also No. 1),
- numero uno,
- overbearing,
- overmastering,
- overriding,
- paramount,
- predominant,
- preeminent,
- premier,
- primal,
- primary,
- principal,
- prior,
- sovereign
- (also sovran),
- supreme
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- jackets with very wide lapels were big that year
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- a mare big with a foal
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big
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of big (Entry 2 of 2)
- with that new promotion he's now one of the bigs in the company
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- big boy,
- big cheese,
- big gun,
- big leaguer,
- big shot,
- big wheel,
- big-timer,
- bigfoot,
- biggie,
- bigwig,
- fat cat,
- heavy,
- heavy hitter,
- heavyweight,
- high-muck-a-muck
- (or high-muckety-muck),
- honcho,
- kahuna,
- kingfish,
- kingpin,
- major leaguer,
- muckety-muck
- (also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck),
- nabob,
- nawab,
- nibs,
- nob
- [chiefly British],
- pooh-bah
- (also poo-bah),
- wheel
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- a candidate who is running for president is playing in the bigs and cannot afford to make major mistakes
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“Big.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big. Accessed 15 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of big was in the 14th century
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