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enormous 音标拼音: [ɪn'ɔrməs] [ɪn'ɔrmɪs] [in'ɔrməs] [in'ɔrmɪs] a. 巨大的,庞大的 巨大的,庞大的 enormous adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; " an enormous boulder"; " enormous expenses"; " tremendous sweeping plains"; " a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; " a plane took off with a tremendous noise" [ synonym: { enormous}, { tremendous}] Enormous \ E* nor" mous\, a. [ L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out norma rule: cf. F. [' e] norme. See { Normal}.] 1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. " Enormous bliss." -- Milton. " This enormous state." -- Shak. " The hoop' s enormous size." -- Jenyns. [ 1913 Webster] Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. [ 1913 Webster] That detestable profession of a life so enormous. -- Bale. Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous. Usage: -- { Enormous}, { Immense}, { Excessive}. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. " Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor." -- V. Knox. " Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive." -- La Rochefoucauld ( Trans). [ 1913 Webster] 151 Moby Thesaurus words for " enormous": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, abysmal, amplitudinous, arrant, astronomic, astronomical, atrocious, awesome, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, boundless, brutal, bulky, colossal, contemptible, cosmic, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, elephantine, epic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gluttonous, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, heroic, high, horrible, horrid, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, incontinent, infamous, infinite, inordinate, intemperate, jumbo, king- size, lamentable, large, loathsome, lousy, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, pitiable, pitiful, prodigious, profound, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sizable, sordid, spacious, squalid, steep, stiff, stupendous, terrible, titanic, too bad, too much, towering, tremendous, unbridled, unclean, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained, vast, vile, villainous, voluminous, weighty, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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