Meaning

Of major significance or importance..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of major significance or importance.
2. To a significant degree.
3. Alternative form of big time.

Example Sentences

Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.

Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.

'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'

Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.

With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.

This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.

The Financial News Network’s SCORE program […] hit the bigtime last Monday by offering live coverage of Snow Chief’s victory in the Jersey Derby […]

Thirty years ago Rob Halford led Judas Priest, and heavy metal itself, out of the Midlands and into the bigtime.

Word Forms

• more bigtime
• most bigtime
• big-time
• bigtimes

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When Should You Use Bigtime?

Use bigtime when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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