Huge

/hjuːd͡ʒ/ · adjective

Meaning

Very large..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very large.
2. (informal) Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
3. (informal) Very interesting, significant, or popular.

Example Sentences

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.

The band's next album is going to be huge.

In our league our coach is huge!

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Word Forms

• huger
• more huge
• hugest
• most huge
• hudge

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