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mas⋅sive

  [mas-iv]
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–adjective
1. consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
2. large and heavy-looking: a massive forehead.
3. large in scale, amount, or degree: a massive breakdown in communications; massive reductions in spending.
4. solid or substantial; great or imposing: massive erudition.
5. Mineralogy. having no outward crystal form, although sometimes crystalline in internal structure.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (see mass, -ive ); r. ME massif < MF

Related forms:
mas⋅sive⋅ly, adverb
mas⋅sive⋅ness, mas⋅siv⋅i⋅ty, noun

Mas⋅sive

  [mas-iv]
–noun
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains: second highest in U.S. Rockies. 14,421 ft. (4396 m).
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mas·sive   (mās'ĭv)   
adj.  
  1. Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid: a massive piece of furniture.
  2. Large or imposing, as in quantity, scope, degree, intensity, or scale: "Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power" (John Foster Dulles). See Synonyms at heavy.
  3. Large in comparison with the usual amount: a massive dose of a drug.
  4. Pathology Affecting a large area of bodily tissue; widespread and severe: massive gangrene.
  5. Mineralogy Lacking internal crystalline structure; amorphous.
  6. Geology Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.

[Middle English massif, from Old French, from masse, mass; see mass.]
mas'sive·ly adv., mas'sive·ness n.
Mas·sive   (mās'ĭv)   
A peak, 4,398.4 m (14,421 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.
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Massive

Mass"ive\, a. [F. massif.]

1. Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy. "Massive armor." --Dr. H. More.

2. (Min.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.

Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.
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Language Translation for : massive
Spanish: enorme, monumental,
German: massiv,
Japanese: 大きく重い
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massive 
c.1408, from M.Fr. massif (fem. massiv) "bulky, solid," from O.Fr. masse "lump" (see mass (1)). The un-Anglicized massif (1524) is also still occasionally used for "cluster of hills."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: mas·sive
Pronunciation: 'mas-iv
Function: adjective
1 : large in comparison to what is typical —used especially of medicaldosage or of an infective agent massive dose of penicillin>
2 : being extensive and severe —used of a pathologic condition massive hemorrhage>massive collapse of a lung>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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massive mas·sive (mās'ĭv)
adj.

  1. Large in comparison with the usual amount.
  2. Affecting a large area of bodily tissue; widespread and severe.

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