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enormous
(encz) | enormous,enormní Zdeněk Brož |
enormous
(encz) | enormous,nesmírný adj: |
enormous
(encz) | enormous,obrovský adj: |
enormous
(encz) | enormous,ohromný Pavel Machek; Giza |
Enormous
(gcide) | Enormous \E*nor"mous\, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e
out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See Normal.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due
proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss."
--Milton. "This enormous state." --Shak. "The hoop's
enormous size." --Jenyns.
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Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
--Milton.
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2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as,
an enormous crime.
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That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
--Bale.
Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious;
monstrous.
Usage: -- Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a
thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law
of existence or far exceeds its proper average or
standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in
its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous
strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense
expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable
quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is
beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in
an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an
immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense.
"Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately
excessive rigor." --V. Knox. "Complaisance becomes
servitude when it is excessive." --La Rochefoucauld
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enormous
(wn) | enormous
adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or
power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous
expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous
fact in human experience; that a whole civilization
should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a
plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous,
tremendous] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
enormous
(encz) | enormous,enormní Zdeněk Broženormous,nesmírný adj: enormous,obrovský adj: enormous,ohromný Pavel Machek; Giza |
enormously
(encz) | enormously,enormně adv: Zdeněk Broženormously,nesmírně adv: Zdeněk Broženormously,ohromně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
enormousness
(encz) | enormousness,nesmírnost n: Zdeněk Broženormousness,obrovitost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Enormously
(gcide) | Enormously \E*nor"mous*ly\, adv.
In an enormous degree.
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Enormousness
(gcide) | Enormousness \E*nor"mous*ness\, n.
The state of being enormous.
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enormous
(wn) | enormous
adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or
power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous
expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous
fact in human experience; that a whole civilization
should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a
plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous,
tremendous] |
enormously
(wn) | enormously
adv 1: extremely; "he was enormously popular" [syn:
enormously, tremendously, hugely, staggeringly] |
enormousness
(wn) | enormousness
n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn:
enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness,
immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness] |
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