size

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Ample dimensions

Nouns

1. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness, greatness; expanse, space; extent, scope (see degree); amplitude; mass, density; proportions, measurement; capacity, tonnage, caliber; corpulence, obesity, plumpness, fatness, embonpoint, avoirdupois, girth, corporation; hugeness, enormousness, immensity, monstrosity. See expansion, rotundity.

2. giant, titan, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Anak, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, Cyclops, Fasolt and Fafner, Gigantes, Gorgons, Grendel, Baba Yaga, Chimera; monster, mammoth, dragon, griffin, Loch Ness monster; whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, mastodon; colossus. Informal, whopper, bumper, lollapalooza.

Verbs — expand, enlarge; grade, assort, graduate (see degree).

Adjectives

1. sizable, large, big, great; considerable, goodly, hefty, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, mammoth, massy; capacious, comprehensive, vast; spacious, towering, magnificent; tremendous, huge, immense, enormous, mighty; monstrous, bullnecked, mesomorphic, prodigious, titanic, gigantic, elephantine, mastodonic, jumbo; giant, stupendous, colossal; Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, amazon, Antaean, Herculean, Junoesque; gross; life-size, big or large as life. Informal, humongous, bodacious.

2. corpulent, stout, fat, plump (see rotundity); full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; lumbering, unwieldy; whopping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown, bloated; big as a house. Informal, queen- or king-size.

Phrases — great oaks from little acorns grow; the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Quotations — Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size (Virginia Woolf), No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own (Seneca), God is ordinarily for the big battalions against the little ones (Count BussyRabutin), [Of Chicago: ] Stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders (Carl Sandburg), A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away (Barry Goldwater), Very big, China (Noël Coward).

Antonyms, see littleness.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Measurement]

Syn. extent, area, dimension; see measurement 2 .

2. [Magnitude]

Syn. bulk, largeness, greatness, extent, vastness, amplitude, scope, immensity, enormity, stature, capaciousness, hugeness, humongousness*, breadth, substance, volume, bigness, highness, mass, extension, intensity, capacity, proportion; see also extent , quantity .

• of a size,

Syn. similar, matched, paired; see alike 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

dimensions, measurements, proportions, scale, extent, area, magnitude, mass, square footage, volume, capacity, amount, stature, breadth, length, height, width, diameter.

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v.

measure, gauge, graduate, assess, appraise, survey, size up.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The amount of space occupied by something: dimension, extent, magnitude, measure, proportion (often used in plural). See BIG. 2. The quality or state of being large in amount, extent, or importance: amplitude, bigness, greatness, largeness, magnitude, sizableness. See BIG. 3. Great extent, amount, or dimension: amplitude, bulk, magnitude, mass, volume (often used in plural). See BIG.