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enormous

adjective
i-NOR-muhs/ɪˈnɔɹ.məs/Sayi-NAW-muhsUK/ɪˈnɔː.məs/AUS/ɪˈnoː.məs/

3 meanings of enormous

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Very big: much bigger than what is normal or expected.

    Like a whale next to a goldfish: one is many times the size of the other.

    The new shopping mall is absolutely enormous.

    They served us an enormous plate of food.

    Similarhuge, vast, immense, massive, gigantic

    Oppositetiny, small, minute, negligible

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  2. 2
    adjectiveobsolete
    Strange or unusual, and not what people normally expect.
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  3. 3
    adjectiveobsolete
    Very evil, cruel or shocking.
    how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.
    1603, Michel de Montaigne, The EssayesHere, enormous means very evil or shocking.
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Origin

From Latin ēnormis, made from ex- meaning "out of" and norma meaning "rule."