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Thesaurus > Space > Dimensions > General dimensions

192. Size

Nouns

  • size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness etc. adj.; greatness etc. (of quantity) S31; expanse etc. (space) S180; amplitude, mass; proportions.
  • capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.
  • turgidity etc. (expansion) S194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness etc. adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.
  • hugeness etc. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.
  • giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows" [Coriolanus].
  • mountain, mound; heap etc. (assemblage) S72.
  • largest portion etc. S50; full size, life size.

Verbs

  • be large etc. adj.; become large etc. (expand) S194.

Adjectives

  • large, big; great etc. (in quantity) S31; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious etc. S180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
  • corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.
  • lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy etc. (swollen) S194.
  • huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite etc. S105.
  • large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.
  • immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of.
  • of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, the granddaddy of all.
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