1. Above average in size, number, quantity, magnitude or extent
   "a large city"; "large areas of the world";
   - big
    
2. Having broad power and range and scope
   "a large sympathy"; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"
    
3. Conspicuous in position or importance
   "he's very large in financial circles";
   - big, prominent
    
4. Significant or important in effect; influential
   "played a large role in the negotiations"
    
5. Generous and understanding and tolerant
   "a large and generous spirit";
   - big, magnanimous
    
6. Ostentatiously lofty in style
   "a man given to large talk";
   - bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid
    
7. In an advanced stage of pregnancy
   "was large with child";
   - big, enceinte [archaic], expectant, gravid [technical], great, heavy, with child [archaic]

1. A garment size for a large person
   "He usually wore a large in t-shirts"

1. At a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
   "The arrow flew large of the target"
    
2. With the wind abaft the beam
   "a ship sailing large"

Derived forms: larges, larger, largest

See also: ample, astronomic, astronomical, banging [informal], bear-sized, bigger, biggish, blown-up, bouffant, broad, Brobdingnagian, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, conspicuous, cosmic, deep, double, elephantine, enlarged, enormous, epic, extended, extensive, full-size, galactic, gargantuan, generous, giant, gigantic, ginormous [Brit, informal], grand, great, heroic, huge, hulking, hulky, humongous [informal], humungous [informal], immense, important, jumbo, king-size, king-sized, large-mouthed, larger, larger-than-life, large-scale, largish, lifesize, life-size, life-sized, macro, macroscopic, macroscopical, mammoth, man-size, man-sized, massive, medium-large, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, plumping [Brit], preggers [informal], preggo [Austral, NZ, informal], pregnant, prodigious, puffy, queen-size, queen-sized, rangy, rhetorical, significant, sizable, size, sizeable, spacious, stupendous, super, thumping [informal], titanic, tremendous, up the duff [Brit, informal], up the spout [informal], up the stick [Brit, informal], vast, volumed, voluminous, walloping [informal], whacking [Brit, informal], whopping [informal], wide, wide-ranging

Type of: size

Antonym: small

Encyclopedia: Large, Pennsylvania