huge

comparative huger · comparative more huge · superlative hugest · superlative most huge · alternative pronunciation spelling yuge · alternative pronunciation spelling yooge · alternative obsolete hudge

1. Very large.

   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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   “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

   2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

   Synonyms: great, ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, exceeding

2. informalVery strong, powerful, or dedicated.

   Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.

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   After the children went to bed, the couple got into a huge argument.

   2026 August 7, Nicholas Muhoro, “Korrina Malinoski, 26, Vanished After an Argument in 1987. Less Than a Year Later, Her 11-Year-Old Daughter Disappeared Too”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026

   Synonyms: great

3. informalVery interesting, significant, or popular.

   In our league our coach is huge!

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   The band's next album is going to be huge.

   Synonyms: great