Big

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large. synonym: large.
  • adjective. Having great strength or force.
  • adjective. Of great significance; momentous.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Mature or grown-up.
  • adjective. Older or eldest. Used especially of a sibling.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Filled up; brimming over.
  • adjective. Bountiful; generous.
  • adjective. Pregnant.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence.
  • adjective. Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent.
  • adjective. Loud and firm; resounding.
  • adjective. Widely liked, used, or practiced; popular.
  • adjective. Self-important; cocky.
  • adverb. In a pretentious or boastful way.
  • adverb. undefined
  • adverb. With considerable success.
  • adverb. In a thorough or unmistakable way; emphatically.
  • idiom. (big on) Enthusiastic about; partial to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of great strength or power.
  • Having great size; large in bulk or magnitude, absolutely or relatively.
  • Great with young; pregnant; ready to give birth; hence, figuratively, full of something important; ready to produce; teeming.
  • . Distended; full, as of grief, passion, courage, determination, goodness, etc.
  • . Tumid; inflated, as with pride; hence, haughty in air or mien, or indicating haughtiness; pompous; proud; boastful: as, big looks; big words.
  • . Great as regards influence, standing, wealth, etc.
  • Synonyms Large, etc. (see great), bulky, huge, massive.
  • 5. Lofty, pompous, arrogant, important.
  • . To inhabit; occupy.
  • 2. Reflexively, to locate one's self.
  • 3. To build; erect; fashion.
  • To dwell; have a dwelling.
  • noun. A kind of winter barley cultivated in northern Europe, especially in Scotland; properly, four-rowed barley, Hordeum vulgare, inferior to but hardier than H. hexastichon, of which it is sometimes called a variety. See bear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
  • adjective. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
  • adjective. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
  • adjective. to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
  • transitive verb. To build.
  • noun. Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of great size, large.
  • adjective. Thought to have undue influence.
  • adjective. Popular.
  • adjective. Adult.
  • adjective. Fat.
  • adjective. Important or significant.
  • adjective. Enthusiastic (about).
  • adjective. Mature, conscientious, principled.
  • adjective. Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
  • Word Usage
    "Bush has helped his corporate \'base\ 'create a \'New World Order\' in which robber barons of big oil, assisted by \'big media\ ', rule the world and plunder its resources."
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    Whig  brig  dig  fig  gig  
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