Synonyms for big-gun
| Grammar : Adj |
Top 10 synonyms for big-gun
- affecting
- august
- big-gun
- big-league
- big-time
- big-wheel
- celeb
- celebrated
- celebrious
- conspicuous
- controlling
- efficacious
- elevated
- exalted
- forcible
- governing
- grand
- great
- guiding
- high
- hot-dog
- impressive
- inspiring
- instrumental
- leading
- leonine
- lionlike
- lofty
- major-league
- meaningful
- momentous
- moving
- name
- noble
- notable
- noted
- noteworthy
- of note
- outstanding
- page-oner
- paramount
- persuasive
- potent
- preeminent
- prestigious
- prominent
- redoubted
- renowned
- significant
- star
- strong
- substantial
- superior
- superstar
- telling
- touching
- VIP
- weighty
- well-known
Définition of big-gun
- As in influential : adj effective, powerful
- As in eminent : adj very important; famous
- The war services were honeycombed with men who were big-gun experts.
- Extract from : « Our Army at the Front » by Heywood Broun
- Big-gun teaching is amusing; trigger-teaching is suggestive.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- I am sure tens of thousands of rifle-cartridges were fired at them, and hundreds of rounds of big-gun shells.
- Extract from : « In the Russian Ranks » by John Morse
- A nineteen-year-old big-gun pointer sits atop of his bicycle saddle, and the enemy fleet is swinging into range.
- Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
- In big-gun teaching the teacher thinks; in trigger-teaching the teacher thinks how to get his scholars to think.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- Big-gun teaching develops the teacher; trigger-teaching develops the scholar.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- Big-gun teaching parades; trigger-teaching stays in the tent and issues orders.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- On the contrary, the trigger-teacher has to put ten times more of himself into every lesson than the big-gun teacher.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- Let no one pass from big-gun teaching to trigger-teaching with the idea that the latter will prove the easier.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- They reckon Tosher is push-and-go stuff, and want to rig me out as a big-gun in the fightin business.
- Extract from : « John Brown » by Captain R. W. Campbell
Antonyms for big-gun
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