enormousadjective
uk/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us/əˈnɔːr.məs/B1 extremely large:
an enormous car/house
He earns an enormous salary.
I was absolutely enormous when I was pregnant.
You've been an enormous help.
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- She's put an enormous pile of papers on my desk and I haven't a clue what to do with them.
- The post-war government had the enormous task of reconstructing the city.
- She showed enormous courage when she rescued him from the fire.
- They cut enormous blocks of stone out of the hillside.
- He ran up an enormous phone bill by ringing up chatlines all the time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- immensity
- mountainous
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- terrific
- thumping
- walloping
- yawning
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enormousness
noun [ U ] uk/ɪˈnɔː.məs.nəs/us/əˈnɔːr.məs.nəs/