huge
UK /hjuːd͡ʒ/ · US /hjud͡ʒ/ adjective
Forms huger hugest yuge yooge hudge
- adjective Very large.
- adjective (informal) Very strong, powerful, or dedicated. “Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.”
- adjective (informal) Very interesting, significant, or popular. “The band's next album is going to be huge.”
Synonyms
great ample big exceeding cosmic bodacious broad commodious considerable expansive good-sized full generous giant grand hefty hench immense jumbo larger than life vast Brobdingnagian
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin.
One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective 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.
Etymology [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “huge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details