Antonyms for big
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : big |
| Phonetic Transcription : bɪg |
Definition of big
Origin :- c.1300, northern England dialect, "powerful, strong," of obscure origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian dialectal bugge "great man"). Old English used micel in many of the same senses. Meaning "of great size" is late 14c.; that of "grown up" is attested from 1550s. Sense of "important" is from 1570s. Meaning "generous" is U.S. colloquial by 1913.
- Big band as a musical style is from 1926. Slang big head "conceit" is first recorded 1850. Big business "large commercial firms collectively" is 1905; big house "penitentiary" is U.S. underworld slang first attested 1915 (in London, "a workhouse," 1851). In financial journalism, big ticket items so called from 1956. Big lie is from Hitler's grosse Lüge.
- adj large, great
- adj important
- adj grown
- adj generous
- adj arrogant
- Can't tell; you don't know how big pills she's been smokin'.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She's one of the build that aren't so big as they look, nor yet so small as they look.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I saw 'em fur years, with a big cuttin' out to show the cross-section.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- And there was big, handsome, Eddie Arledge, whose father had treated him shabbily.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Now don't breathe a word of this, but there's a big deal on in Consolidated Copper.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I've often thought I'd go into some of these big operations here.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He is as big and brawny as Ascapart at the bar-gate at Southampton.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- “Thou art a big fellow for a school,” said his uncle, looking him over.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- They considered civilisation a failure because it was killing off all the big game.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- That's where our big West is, over that way—isn't it fresh and green and beautiful?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
Synonyms for big
- a whale of a
- adult
- altruistic
- ample
- arty
- awash
- benevolent
- big league
- big-time
- bighearted
- boastful
- bragging
- brimming
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- capacious
- chivalrous
- chock-full
- colossal
- commodious
- conceited
- consequential
- considerable
- considerate
- copious
- crowded
- elder
- eminent
- enormous
- extensive
- fat
- flamboyant
- free
- full
- full-grown
- gigantic
- gracious
- greathearted
- grown-up
- haughty
- heavy-duty
- heavyweight
- hefty
- heroic
- high-sounding
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- husky
- immense
- imperious
- imposing
- inflated
- influential
- jumbo
- leading
- liberal
- lofty
- magnanimous
- main
- major league
- mammoth
- massive
- material
- mature
- meaningful
- momentous
- mondo
- monster
- noble
- overblown
- oversize
- packed
- paramount
- pompous
- ponderous
- popular
- powerful
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- prime
- princely
- principal
- prodigious
- prominent
- proud
- roomy
- serious
- significant
- sizable
- spacious
- strapping
- stuffed
- substantial
- super
- super colossal
- tall
- thundering
- tremendous
- unselfish
- valuable
- vast
- voluminous
- walloping
- weighty
- whopper
- whopping
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