Hypertext Webster Gateway: "huge"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Huge \Huge\, a. [Compar. {Huger}; superl. {Hugest}.] [OE. huge,
hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of
material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a
huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. ``The huge
confusion.'' --Chapman. ``A huge filly.'' --Jer. Taylor. --
{Huge"ly}, adv. -- {Huge"ness}, n.
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. --Shak.
Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
huge
adj : unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge
country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher
education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct
winds like an immense snake along the base of the
mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or
immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space";
"the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call
civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {immense}, {vast}]
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