huge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
    Brobdingnagian; vast; immense.
    • huge government spending
    • huge country estates
    • huge popular demand for higher education
    • a huge wave
    • the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
    • immense numbers of birds
    • at vast (or immense) expense
    • the vast reaches of outer space
    • the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge

WordNet

Huge adjective
Etymology
OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.
Wordforms
comparative Huger ; superlative Hugest
Definitions
  1. Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n.
    Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.
    Syn. -- Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.

Webster 1913