big

adjlarge, great
adjimportant
adjgrown
adjgenerous
adjarrogant

Antonyms for big

ample

adjective. more than necessary, sufficient

amplest

adjective. more than necessary, sufficient

Word Origin & History

c.1300, northern England dialect, "powerful, strong," of obscure origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian dialectal bugge "great man"). Old English used micel in many of the same senses. Meaning "of great size" is late 14c.; that of "grown up" is attested from 1550s. Sense of "important" is from 1570s. Meaning "generous" is U.S. colloquial by 1913.

Big band as a musical style is from 1926. Slang big head "conceit" is first recorded 1850. Big business "large commercial firms collectively" is 1905; big house "penitentiary" is U.S. underworld slang first attested 1915 (in London, "a workhouse," 1851). In financial journalism, big ticket items so called from 1956. Big lie is from Hitler's grosse Lüge.

Example Sentences for big

Can't tell; you don't know how big pills she's been smokin'.

She's one of the build that aren't so big as they look, nor yet so small as they look.

I saw 'em fur years, with a big cuttin' out to show the cross-section.

And there was big, handsome, Eddie Arledge, whose father had treated him shabbily.

Now don't breathe a word of this, but there's a big deal on in Consolidated Copper.

I've often thought I'd go into some of these big operations here.

He is as big and brawny as Ascapart at the bar-gate at Southampton.

“Thou art a big fellow for a school,” said his uncle, looking him over.

They considered civilisation a failure because it was killing off all the big game.

That's where our big West is, over that way—isn't it fresh and green and beautiful?

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Synonyms for big

Antonyms for big

OK

acceptable

altruistic

ample

amplest

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acceptable

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