as in huge
unusually large
that pumpkin is so enormous that it has to be a record holder
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as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the enormousness of the mall is such that one could shop at a different store for every day of the year
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Recent Examples of enormous
William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
There are things upsetting Hollywood, but the brand side has gone all in in an enormous way.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Implementing the administration's complex partial funding formula presents enormous procedural challenges for states, which administer the program that serves 42 million Americans.
—Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Mining missions must extract, process, and transport enough material to offset their enormous costs.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
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The platform has amassed an enormous social media following, sharing market insights and trading strategies.
—William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
There are things upsetting Hollywood, but the brand side has gone all in in an enormous way.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Implementing the administration's complex partial funding formula presents enormous procedural challenges for states, which administer the program that serves 42 million Americans.
—Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Mining missions must extract, process, and transport enough material to offset their enormous costs.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enormous
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At the center of all the glitzy havoc—her face often looming on a huge flat screen that rolls around the stage, following actors like a hulking LED stalker—is of course Chenoweth.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Todd also had a huge sack in the fourth quarter.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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But none of them came anywhere near the genocide of 2023–25 in terms of magnitude, severity and sheer brutality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Excluding disasters, sudden surges of this magnitude in requests for food or any other need are rare at 211s, and can signal both public worry and need, as happened in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matthew W. Kreuter,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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In 2017, Nepal joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s vast infrastructure investment program.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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Robotic systems like Sentante could let experts treat patients remotely instead of transporting them across vast regions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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There is typically a dearth of historical information about the conditions in which the vehicle went missing, and locating a sunken aircraft or a large ship in the vastness of the ocean is difficult and costly.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The vastness of the narrative is packed into compact poems that are propelled forward with stunning imagery and dialogue.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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As the anti-India movement in the Maldives gained momentum, China exploited the United States’ absence, rapidly expanding its regional footprint by easing the tremendous debt the island country owed China.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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The lid lifters, who conduct their inspections just before crews are scheduled to pick up trash and recycling, have created some confusion because their inspections began with the city’s trash system in tremendous flux.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Cianfrance captures Jeffrey’s misadventures inside the store as if his protagonist is trapped in a cage, underlining how tiny his fugitive life is compared with the immensity of his relationship with Leigh.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
15 Oct. 2025
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Between every frame a disjunctive gap intrudes, subdividing the whole back into its parts, and thereby confronting the viewer with the plethora of copy culture, a barely manageable immensity of data.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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But their collective decline from era-changing talents, who, in the case of Zverev and Medvedev, forced style changes across the tour with their combination of gigantic serves and elite movement and defense, illustrates how far Sinner and Alcaraz have pulled away.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Getting that pilot picked up is another gigantic win that is getting rarer and rarer.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Enormous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormous. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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