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Philip Lief Group.
WORD ORIGIN
also humungous, by 1972, American English, apparently a fanciful coinage from huge and monstrous.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HUMONGOUS
Brobdingnagian
adjectivegiantBunyanesque
adjectivegiantbig
adjectivelarge, great- a whale of a
- ample
- awash
- brimming
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- capacious
- chock-full
- colossal
- commodious
- considerable
- copious
- crowded
- enormous
- extensive
- fat
- full
- gigantic
- heavy-duty
- heavyweight
- hefty
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- husky
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- mondo
- monster
- oversize
- packed
- ponderous
- prodigious
- roomy
- sizable
- spacious
- strapping
- stuffed
- substantial
- super colossal
- thundering
- tremendous
- vast
- voluminous
- walloping
- whopper
- whopping
bigger
adjectivelarge, great- a whale of a
- ample
- awash
- brimming
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- capacious
- chock-full
- colossal
- commodious
- considerable
- copious
- crowded
- enormous
- extensive
- fat
- full
- gigantic
- heavy-duty
- heavyweight
- hefty
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- husky
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- mondo
- monster
- oversize
- packed
- ponderous
- prodigious
- roomy
- sizable
- spacious
- strapping
- stuffed
- substantial
- super colossal
- thundering
- tremendous
- vast
- voluminous
- walloping
- whopper
- whopping
biggest
adjectivelarge, great- a whale of a
- ample
- awash
- brimming
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- capacious
- chock-full
- colossal
- commodious
- considerable
- copious
- crowded
- enormous
- extensive
- fat
- full
- gigantic
- heavy-duty
- heavyweight
- hefty
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- husky
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- mondo
- monster
- oversize
- packed
- ponderous
- prodigious
- roomy
- sizable
- spacious
- strapping
- stuffed
- substantial
- super colossal
- thundering
- tremendous
- vast
- voluminous
- walloping
- whopper
- whopping
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.