large-scale

[lahrj-skeyl] / ˈlɑrdʒˈskeɪl /

ADJECTIVE

big

Synonyms

STRONGEST

extensive huge large massive sizable substantial

WEAK

a whale of a ample awash brimming bulky bull burly capacious chock-full colossal commodious considerable copious crowded enormous fat full gigantic good great healthy heavy-duty heavyweight hefty hulking humongous husky immense jumbo mammoth mondo monster oversize packed ponderous prodigious roomy spacious strapping stuffed supercolossal thundering tremendous vast voluminous walloping whopper whopping

Antonyms

STRONGEST

little miniature short small tiny

Example Sentences

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“We don’t think IBM will see material revenue from quantum before the 2030s, when the company can come up with large-scale fault-tolerant quantum systems,” Yang said.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Data centers serve that purpose nicely: Like all large-scale building projects, they ruffle local feathers; and their purpose, unlike an airport or a shopping center, requires explanation and so lends itself to conspiratorial Facebook posting.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Before delving deeper into the issues for the permanent residents, let’s examine the effect of the large-scale data centers being built and proposed in Nevada, and more generally coast to coast.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Karpathy will join Anthropic’s pretraining program, focusing on large-scale training runs for its Claude chatbot.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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