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large

adjective

1 a large house | large numbers of people:

big, great, huge, of considerable size, sizeable, substantial, immense, enormous, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, cosmic, goodly, prodigious, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, stupendous, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, mountainous, monstrous;

towering, tall, high, lofty;

mighty, epic, inordinate, voluminous, unlimited, king-size, king-sized, giant-size, giant-sized, man-size, man-sized, outsize, oversized, overgrown, considerable, major, Brobdingnagian;

cumbersome, unwieldy;

informal jumbo, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, mega, humongous, monster, astronomical, dirty great;

British, informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous.

▷antonyms small.

2 a large red-faced man:

big, burly, heavy, tall, bulky, thickset, heavyset, chunky, strapping, powerfully built, hefty, muscular, muscle-bound, brawny, muscly, husky, solid, powerful, sturdy, solidly built, broad-shouldered, strong, big and strong, rugged, Herculean;

fat, plump, overweight, chubby, stout, weighty, meaty, fleshy, portly, rotund, flabby, well fed, paunchy, Falstaffian, obese, gross, corpulent;

buxom;

informal hunky, hulking, beefy, roly-poly, tubby, pudgy, porky, well upholstered, broad in the beam;

British, informal podgy, fubsy, lard-arsed;

North American, informal zaftig, corn-fed.

▷antonyms small; thin.

3 a large supply of wool:

abundant, copious, plentiful, ample, liberal, generous, lavish, profuse, bountiful, bumper, boundless, teeming, overflowing, good, considerable, superabundant, opulent, handsome, galore, sufficient;

informal tidy;

literary plenteous.

▷antonyms meager, scanty.

4 the measure has large economic implications:

wide-reaching, far-reaching, wide-ranging, wide, sweeping, large-scale, macroscale, broad, extensive, comprehensive, exhaustive, wholesale, global.

▷antonyms trivial, petty.

□ at large

1 fourteen criminals are still at large:

at liberty, free, on the loose, on the run, fugitive;

unconfined, unrestrained, roaming, loose, unbound, unrestricted, untied, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, set loose, wild;

North American, informal on the lam.

▷antonyms confined, in prison.

2 society at large:

as a whole, as a body, generally, in general, in the main.

▷antonyms in particular, specifically.

3 he speaks at large of the choroid plexus:

in detail, with full details, exhaustively, at length, extensively.

□ by and large

the children, by and large, treated him well:

on the whole, generally, in general, altogether, all things considered, all in all, taking everything into consideration, for the most part, in the main, as a rule, overall, usually, normally, ordinarily, almost always, customarily, habitually, typically, mainly, mostly, basically, chiefly, predominantly, principally, substantially;

on average, in most cases, on balance, to all intents and purposes.

word links	large
macro- related prefix, as in macroeconomics, macrocephaly mega- related prefix, as in megalith, megabucks megalo- related prefix, as in megalosaurus, megalomaniac