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Definition of Enormous
1. Adjective. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree. "A plane took off with a tremendous noise"
Definition of Enormous
1. a. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
Definition of Enormous
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous. ¹
3. Adjective. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enormous
1. huge [adj] - See also: huge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enormous
Literary usage of Enormous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"Infection in many of these cases he believed was behind the peritoneum, and not
within it. Report of a Ca.se of enormous Ventral Hernia; ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"During th« enormous interval of time represented by these massive formations what
is now the axis of the continent remained undisturbed save by a gentle and ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"enormous TUMOR OF THE POSTERO-PARIETAL REGION, WEIGHING OVER HALF A POUND; ...
of the enormous size of the tumor, is of unusual interest and importance. ..."
4. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"From the eastern accumulations and manners, came also an enormous increase of
luxury ; this evil did not so readily affect the substantial merchant, ..."
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