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Adjective: larger laa(r)j-u(r)- Large or big relative to something else
- bigger Adjective: large (larger,largest) laa(r)j- Above average in size, number, quantity, magnitude or extent
"a large city"; "large areas of the world"; - big - Significant or important in effect; influential
"played a large role in the negotiations" - Ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; - bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid - Generous and understanding and tolerant
"a large and generous spirit"; - big, magnanimous - Conspicuous in position or importance
"he's very large in financial circles"; - big, prominent - Having broad power and range and scope
"taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy" - In an advanced stage of pregnancy
"was large with child"; - big, enceinte [archaic], expectant, gravid [technical], great, heavy, with child
See also: ample, astronomic, astronomical, banging [informal], bear-sized, 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-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, 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, too large, 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 Antonym: small Encyclopedia: Large, Robert |