enormous
greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense: an enormous fortune.
outrageous or atrocious: enormous wickedness; enormous crimes.
Origin of enormous
1synonym study For enormous
Other words for enormous
Other words from enormous
- e·nor·mous·ly, adverb
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How to use enormous in a sentence
Had it been effective, it would have made an enormous difference in this pandemic.
Senate holds hearing on hydroxychloroquine, despite no evidence it works against covid-19 | Marisa Iati | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostAny type of business or any type of nonprofit that is a gathering space is — for obvious pandemic-related reasons — facing an enormous challenge of reinvention or getting by with less of a capacity to fulfill that piece of your mission.
Both these fields have seen enormous progress in the last few years, but there has been little cross-pollination between the two.
How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade | Will Heaven | November 20, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt’s a huge blow to the astronomy community, which used Arecibo for 57 years to conduct an enormous amount of space and atmospheric research.
The second-largest radio telescope in the world is shutting down | Neel Patel | November 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewEach local region—a self-consistent, relative world—turned out to be the tiny tip of an enormous, four-dimensional iceberg, forever hidden from sight and decidedly not relative.
When Einstein Tilted at Windmills - Issue 93: Forerunners | Amanda Gefter | November 18, 2020 | Nautilus
Not surprisingly, rates for recovery vary enormously, from as low as three percent to upwards of 75 percent.
But events in the Special Administrative Region are enormously important to the Communist Party leadership in Beijing.
I think that the war itself, and the lessons that we can learn from that war, are still enormously relevant.
Rory Kennedy on ‘Last Days in Vietnam,’ the Parallels Between Vietnam and Iraq, and Ferguson | Marlow Stern | September 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe gathered 25 masks and put them on display in the small museum, which became enormously popular.
The Ukrainian Face Collector Launches an Exhibition in Kiev | Nina Strochlic | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo me, this seemed to be a country that was overflowing with interesting, smart, enormously talented people.
Has Friendship With Israel Become a Casualty of War? | Malcolm MacDougall | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe arousing of the fundamental instincts of these human beings had, indeed, enormously emphasized the animal in them.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettTheir unsold cargoes on the way in steamers when Manila was blockaded came in for enormously advanced prices.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanI have always demanded of you, demanded enormously, and received my measure pressed down and running over.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThe experience of the war has enormously increased this sense of social solidarity.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockI can't help feeling that the strain of improving myself so enormously would tell on me.
First Plays | A. A. Milne
British Dictionary definitions for enormous
/ (ɪˈnɔːməs) /
unusually large in size, extent, or degree; immense; vast
archaic extremely wicked; heinous
Origin of enormous
1Derived forms of enormous
- enormously, adverb
- enormousness, noun
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