Outsize

Quick meaning: Outsize is a noun meaning An unusually large garment size.

Meaning

An unusually large garment size.

More Meanings

1. Of an unusually large size .
2. Unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
3. (intransitive) To exceed in size.

Example Sentences

Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.

Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.

[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.

1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11. ...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle.

Word Forms

• outsizes
• outsizing
• outsized

Synonyms for outsize

Depending on context, synonyms include OS, outsized, large, big, oversized, oversize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oversize, outsized, oversized, big, large, overlargeness.

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