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单词 humongous
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Definition of humongous in English:

humongous

(also humungous)
adjective hjuːˈmʌŋɡəshjuˈməŋɡəs
North American informal
  • Huge; enormous.

    a humongous steak
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jennie clacked over to me, in her humungous shoes.
    • I think everyone will agree these are huge loses - humungous losses.
    • Eventually, after a couple of hours, they reached the bottom of the humongous mountain.
    • Lots of people would sign up if they could grow a gigantic potato or a monstrous zucchini or a humungous tomato.
    • Also, remember the humongous snowball that we started rolling at the bottom of the hill near our house?
    • ‘That was great Katie,’ he said with a humungous smile.
    • You'd think a humongous blunder like this would be all over the front pages.
    • Half the sky was a golden glow casting a shimmering slick across the water, and the other half, painted with grey and black puffed humungous clouds.
    • Their houses here are humongous, gigantic even.
    • ‘So,’ he started, having not noticed the humungous sigh, ‘Do your parents live here too?’
    • It's not a humongous group of people, but it is a very committed group of people.
    • We thought it proper that we have one of the candidates who was on that humongous ballot here today.
    • She and her friends made humungous signs to carry around.
    • That probably is worth a huge horselaugh, because franchises keep being bought for humongous sums.
    • An already huge company would become truly humongous in terms of its wealth and power.
    • The gigantic horse was a humongous black beast with flashing green eyes and a name to suit: Thunderhead.
    • One way or another, we seem to be heading for a world of three or four really humungous pharmaceutical companies in the US, maybe six or eight worldwide.
    • As long as it's not a multicolored, mammoth hat with a humongous pom-pom attached to it.
    • We are having a humungous party at the beach and everybody will have lots and lots of fun.
    • He sat down and looked at the giant pictures of his ancestors that decorated the humungous room.
    Synonyms
    large, sizeable, of considerable size, substantial, considerable, great, huge, immense, enormous, extensive, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, mighty, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, epic, mountainous, megalithic, monstrous, brobdingnagian

Origin

1970s (originally US): possibly based on huge and monstrous, influenced by the stress pattern of stupendous.

Rhymes

fungous, fungus
 
 

Definition of humongous in US English:

humongous

(also humungous)
adjectivehjuˈməŋɡəshyo͞oˈməNGɡəs
North American informal
  • Huge; enormous.

    a humongous steak
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You'd think a humongous blunder like this would be all over the front pages.
    • One way or another, we seem to be heading for a world of three or four really humungous pharmaceutical companies in the US, maybe six or eight worldwide.
    • Their houses here are humongous, gigantic even.
    • Half the sky was a golden glow casting a shimmering slick across the water, and the other half, painted with grey and black puffed humungous clouds.
    • ‘So,’ he started, having not noticed the humungous sigh, ‘Do your parents live here too?’
    • She and her friends made humungous signs to carry around.
    • We thought it proper that we have one of the candidates who was on that humongous ballot here today.
    • An already huge company would become truly humongous in terms of its wealth and power.
    • I think everyone will agree these are huge loses - humungous losses.
    • Lots of people would sign up if they could grow a gigantic potato or a monstrous zucchini or a humungous tomato.
    • Jennie clacked over to me, in her humungous shoes.
    • Eventually, after a couple of hours, they reached the bottom of the humongous mountain.
    • That probably is worth a huge horselaugh, because franchises keep being bought for humongous sums.
    • He sat down and looked at the giant pictures of his ancestors that decorated the humungous room.
    • The gigantic horse was a humongous black beast with flashing green eyes and a name to suit: Thunderhead.
    • Also, remember the humongous snowball that we started rolling at the bottom of the hill near our house?
    • We are having a humungous party at the beach and everybody will have lots and lots of fun.
    • It's not a humongous group of people, but it is a very committed group of people.
    • As long as it's not a multicolored, mammoth hat with a humongous pom-pom attached to it.
    • ‘That was great Katie,’ he said with a humungous smile.
    Synonyms
    large, sizeable, of considerable size, substantial, considerable, great, huge, immense, enormous, extensive, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, mighty, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, epic, mountainous, megalithic, monstrous, brobdingnagian

Origin

1970s (originally US): possibly based on huge and monstrous, influenced by the stress pattern of stupendous.

 
 
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