great
Usage
What are other ways to say great?
In reference to the size and extent of concrete objects, great is highly formal and even poetic, suggesting also that the object is notable or imposing, large is only somewhat formal, and big is the most general and most colloquial word: a great oak; a large tree; a big tree; great plains; a large field; a big field. When the reference is to degree or a quality, great is the usual word: great beauty; great mistake; great surprise; although big sometimes alternates with it in colloquial style: a big mistake; a big surprise; large is usually not used in reference to degree, but may be used in a quantitative reference: a large number (great number).
Example Sentences
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Well over 11 million people registered to score tickets for Styles’s 30 shows in New York, according to Ticketmaster, a number far greater than the capacity of 30 Madison Square Gardens.
“Everybody sort of accepts the fact that the current state of play is not great,” Mr. Baker says.
So far, AI has been a great money transfer from investors to consumers, subsidizing their usage.
“The need to understand what is happening in these corridors of power in 2026 is greater than ever before.”
Instead, visitors pass through double wooden gates into the courtyard, then through glass pocket doors into the great room and kitchen.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
