bigger

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UK/ˈbɪɡəː/UK[ˈbɪɡəː]US/ˈbɪɡɚ/US[ˈbɪɡɚ] ~ [ˈbɪɡɹ̩]

verb

To make or become bigger.

CommonScrabble 10

Meanings

bigger1

adjective

alternative pronunciation spelling biggah · alternative pronunciation spelling bigguh

  1. comparativecomparative form of big: more big

    That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […]

    1812, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146
    1 more example

    When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

    1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
verbbigger (third-person singular simple present biggers, present participle biggering, simple past and past participle biggered)

present singular third person biggers · participle present biggering · participle past biggered · past biggered · alternative pronunciation spelling biggah · alternative pronunciation spelling bigguh

  1. nonstandardrareTo make or become bigger.

    She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir.

    1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume 1, published 2009, page 322
    2 more examples

    But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.

    1971, Dr Seuss, The Lorax, page 39

    The money they splurged to the board's delight Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight

    2002 August 5, Mark Gibbs, “IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons”, in Network World, page 69

Bigger2

proper nounBigger (countable and uncountable, plural Biggers)

plural Biggers

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA township in Jennings County, Indiana, United States, named after Samuel Bigger.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivelarge or big relative to something else

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

bigger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigger

MLA

“bigger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bigger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigger.

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