Meaning of 'big'

adjective

prodigious

Synonyms: heavy

adverb

in a boastful manner

Example: "You talked big all evening."

Synonyms: boastfully

adverb

in a major way

Example: "the play failed big at the box office"

adverb

on a grand scale

Example: "think big"

adverb

extremely well

Example: "Their performance went over big."

Synonyms: excellently

adjective

conspicuous in position or importance

Example: "a big figure in the movement"

Synonyms: large prominent

adjective

given or giving freely

Example: "was a big tipper"

Synonyms: handsome liberal bountiful bighearted bounteous freehanded giving openhanded

adjective

generous and understanding and tolerant

Example: "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"

Synonyms: large

adjective

marked by intense physical force

Example: "a big wind"

adjective

significant

Example: "Graduation is a big day in a student's life."

adjective

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

Synonyms: large

adjective

loud and firm

Example: "a big voice"

adjective

(of animals) fully developed

Synonyms: adult full-grown fully grown grown grownup

adjective

very intense

Synonyms: fiery flaming consuming overwhelming bad

adjective

feeling self-importance

Example: "They thought of themselves as big time."

Synonyms: swelled vainglorious

adjective

exhibiting self-importance

Example: "big talk"

Synonyms: boastful braggart bragging braggy cock-a-hoop crowing self-aggrandizing self-aggrandising

adjective

in an advanced stage of pregnancy

Synonyms: enceinte expectant gravid great large heavy with child