Other word meaning big

47 different ways to say Big

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If you want to really widen your vocabulary, exploring each synonym’s own related terms can give you plenty of ideas to improve your speech and writing.

What is another word for “big”? This lesson provides a list of commonly used synonyms for “big” with useful example sentences and ESL images. Learning these words to use instead of “big” will help you broaden your vocabulary.

Big Synonym

Big Definition and Examples

Meaning of “Big”:

Adjective: To be large or massive in stature, size, or dimension; or be large in quantity, quality, or numbers

• Example:  “The last tanker dad commanded was over 200,000 tons. Man, was it big!”

Adverb: Being in a large or massive manner

• Example: “ Think big, Sam. Where do you imagine yourself in the next five years?”

Other Words for “Big”

Common synonyms for the word “big”.

• Bulky
• Burly
• Colossal
• Considerable
• Elephantine
• Enormous
• Extensive
• Giant
• Gigantic
• Great
• Huge
• Immense
• Large
• Mammoth
• Massive
• Ponderous
• Prodigious
• Spacious
• Substantial
• Vast
• Voluminous

A huge list of 100+ different words to use instead of “big”.

• Abundant
• Adult
• Ample
• Benevolent
• Big shot
• Big time
• Bighearted
• Big-league
• Bigwig
• Bounteous
• Bountiful
• Broad
• Brobdingnagian
• Bulky
• Burly
• Capacious
• Charitable
• Colossal
• Consequential
• Considerable
• Considerate
• Copious
• Earnest
• Elephantine
• Enormous
• Essential
• Expansive
• Expectant
• Extensive
• Fat
• Formidable
• Gargantuan
• Generous
• Giant
• Gigantic
• Giving
• Goodly
• Grand
• Grave
• Great
• Grown
• Haughty
• Heavy
• Hefty
• Herculean
• High
• Historic
• Huge
• Hulking
• Humongous
• Immense
• Important
• Impressive
• Inflated
• Influential
• Jumbo
• Large
• Largest
• Liberal
• Long
• Magnanimous
• Major
• Mammoth
• Massive
• Material
• Mature
• Meaningful
• Mighty
• Momentous
• Monstrous
• Monumental
• Mountain
• Mountainous
• Notable
• Obese
• Outstanding
• Oversize
• Ponderous
• Pretentious
• Prodigious
• Remarkable
• Serious
• Significant
• Sizable
• Sizeable
• Spacious
• Stout
• Strong
• Stupendous
• Substantial
• Swingeing
• Tall
• Terrific
• Thumping
• Towering
• Tremendous
• Vast
• Vital
• Voluminous
• Weighty
• Whopping

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Big Synonyms with Examples

Learn another word for “big” with example sentences.

• Bulky

 Her padded coat made her look very bulky.

• Burly

 Two burly men were on the doorstep.

• Colossal

The singer earns a colossal amount of money.

• Considerable

We’ve saved a considerable amount of money.

• Elephantine

She’s so tiny she makes me feel elephantine.

• Enormous

He had enormous charm and a great sense of humour.

• Extensive

He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.

• Giant

The most popular exhibit in the museum was a giant animatronic dinosaur.

• Gigantic

 A gigantic task of national reconstruction awaits us.

• Great

There is great difference between word and deed.

• Huge

The bomb blew a huge hole in the ground.

• Immense

People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.

• Large

He has a large circle of acquaintances.

• Mammoth

Cleaning up the city-wide mess is going to be a mammoth task.

• Massive

We must make massive efforts to improve it.

• Ponderous

His steps were heavy and ponderous.

• Prodigious

She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.

• Spacious

Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.

• Substantial

We have the support of a substantial number of parents.

• Vast

We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.

• Voluminous

He took voluminous notes during the lecture.

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Last Updated on January 8, 2021

big

     ( bigger    comparative)   ( biggest    superlative  )

Big Apple     
People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.  
INFORMAL      n-proper   the N  
The main attractions of the Big Apple are well documented.     

big band        ( big bands    plural  ) A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.      n-count  

big bang theory     
In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.      n-sing   the N  

Big Brother     
People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.      n-uncount  
  (disapproval)
   It’s an attempt to control what reaches the public. Big Brother is watching.     

big business  

big cat        ( big cats    plural  ) Big cats are lions, tigers, and other large wild animals in the cat family.      n-count  

big city     
The big city is used to refer to a large city which seems attractive to someone because they think there are many exciting things to do there, and many opportunities to earn a lot of money.      n-sing   the N  
…a country girl who dreams of the big city and bright lights.     

big deal  

big dipper        ( big dippers    plural  ) A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.  
  (BRIT)      n-count  
(=roller coaster)  

big fish        ( big fish    plural  )

big game     
Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.      n-uncount  

big gun        ( big guns    plural  ) If you refer to someone as a big gun, you mean that they have a lot of power or influence.  
INFORMAL      n-count  
…the legal big guns who will prepare his defence.     

big head        ( big heads    plural  ) If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.  
INFORMAL      n-count  
  (disapproval)
  
(=know-all)  

big-headed     
If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.      adj  
  (disapproval)
  
(=conceited)  
…an arrogant, big-headed man.     

big-hearted     
If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous to other people, and always willing to help them.  
WRITTEN      adj   usu ADJ n     (Antonym: mean-spirited)
   …a big-hearted Irishman.     

big hitter        ( big hitters    plural  ) , big-hitter  

big money     
Big money is an amount of money that seems very large to you, especially money which you get easily.      n-uncount  
They began to make big money during the war.     

big mouth        ( big mouths    plural  ) If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.  
INFORMAL      n-count  
  (disapproval)
   Why don’t you shut your big mouth?     

big name        ( big names    plural  ) A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.      n-count  
…all the big names in rock and pop.     

big noise        ( big noises    plural  ) Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.  
  (BRIT)  
INFORMAL      n-count  
(=big shot)  

big screen     
When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.      n-sing   the N     (Antonym: small screen)
   She returns to the big screen to play Candy’s overbearing mother, Rose.     

big shot        ( big shots    plural  ) A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.  
INFORMAL      n-count  
He’s a big shot in Chilean politics.     

big-ticket     
If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.  
  (mainly AM)      adj   ADJ n  
Supercomputers are big-ticket items.     

big time   , big-time  

big toe        ( big toes    plural  ) Your big toe is the largest toe on your foot.      n-count  

big top     
The large round tent that a circus uses for its performances is called the big top.      n-sing  

big wheel        ( big wheels    plural  ) A big wheel is a very large upright wheel with carriages around the edge of it which people can ride in. Big wheels are often found at theme parks or fun fairs.  
  (BRIT)      n-count  
in AM, use ferris wheel     

Bush has helped his corporate ‘base ‘create a ‘New World Order’ in which robber barons of big oil, assisted by ‘big media ‘, rule the world and plunder its resources. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pale skin, smooth all over, little pink nipples on a smooth, flat chest, snub nose with a little pale spray of freckles, big, _big_ blue eyes, naked as a jaybird, but for the brass-colored bobby-pins holding up her braids. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They looked just as puzzled as he probably did, he saw; they knew they were being called in on something big, and in the IES big meant _big_. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

“Ah, but you wouldn’t say they looked like fools when they landed a big pike, I can tell you, ” said Tom, who had never caught anything that was “big” in his life, but whose imagination was on the stretch with indignant zeal for the honor of sport. ❋ Unknown (1917)

I don’t know what paved streets an ‘stall feedin’ do for a man, but any one ‘at’s lived sixty year on the ground knows’ at this whole old earth is jest teemin ‘with work’ at’s too big for anything but a God, an ‘a mighty _big_ God at that! ❋ Unknown (1915)

And I want to be a great, big, big, _big_ little boy. ❋ Walter Ben Hare (1915)

«Didn’t you ever ask the Lord to let you do some big, _big_ things?» insisted Bobby. ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

They say that there are white men who come over the great salt lake from far-off lands in big _big_ canoes. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Football is a rough sport, thats why we watch it, thats why we pay big$$ for tickets and buy big screen TVs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, they will fail to eliminate big corporations (Home Depot comes to mind) who spend countless dollars on their own lobbyists whose sole purpose is to influence legislation in its (i. e.-big corporation’s) favor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If that ship is anywhere near completion, we are in big, _big_ trouble! » ❋ Harry Harrison (N/A)

He’s given me to do is to teach you chaps the best I can, and maybe my teaching will help one of you to do the big, _big_ thing. » ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

«I didn’t know _you_ — didn’t know the big, _big_ man you are. ❋ John Fox (1891)

The AHRC is being accused of pandering to a party political agenda by including the term big society in its literature. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I am now beginning to understand the meaning of the term «big society». ❋ Unknown (2011)

So it’s time to abandon the term big society, move on and consider what must follow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He had taken his time about it; the failure of the magnetic field around the bottle, even just enough failure to let a single atom or particle of conventional matter into the antimatter while it was being transferred, would have given a new and less strictly astronomical meaning to the term big bang. ❋ DIANE DUANE (2000)

We started a club in Brighton so we didn’t have to travel to London every weekend, called the Big Beat Boutique, which is where the term «big beat» was coined. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The term «big D-deaf» is sometimes used to refer to those who identify themselves as culturally deaf, and have a very strong deaf identity. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Francis Maude, the cabinet secretary, and Nick Hurd, the minister leading the policy, are singled out in the report for failing to recognise how uninformed people are about what the phrase «big society» actually means. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[Hello ladies], [did you know] [my cock] is big. ❋ Bigpun2 (2005)

my [boobs] are big ❋ Herr Magie (2021)

[I love] my big! She’s [so cool]! ❋ Greeky (2008)

«[My dick is big].»
«[Your tits] are big.»
«Yo ass is [big momma].» ❋ Lord Ass (2005)

Example:
«He is big«: whenever you may hears when a person saying this actually means that the person is making a positive comment. If a women says this [whe] she has looked at something which she finds pleasing, like a mans figure. This statement could also refer to a mans [endowment]; which a women finds satisfying. So, try to think of the word ‘big‘ when refered to men as not that a man is fat, but rather one who has a well-shaped and/or one that is hung, where there both width and [thickness] of his form and his endowment which the [beholder] behinds pleasing. In this example the word ‘big‘ shows an personal interest in an appeasing, satisifying male.
A negative example of ‘big‘:
[Alisha]: what do you you think of that guy?
Susan: who him, hes big?
Alisha: So what he is big?
Susan: look at him, hes a little on the fat side!
Big and fat are not to be confused, because big is used when speaking of muscle ([the figure] generally) and endowment. ❋ Knowaboutyourself (2008)

«I’m gonna be [chilling] with my big tonight.»
«[I don’t wanna] [hook up with] him hes my big!»
«Your big is so hot i cant believe your related!» ❋ Sarahgrindle777 (2008)

«Your [titties] are big»
«Her titties were a [small] big»
«Dude, did you see her [big titties]?» ❋ OHMYGODIMONFIRE (2011)

Example:
«He is big«: whenever you may hears when a person saying this actually means that the person is making a positive comment. If a women says this [whe] she has looked at something which she finds pleasing, like a mans figure. This statement could also refer to a mans [endowment]; which a women finds satisfying. So, try to think of the word ‘big‘ when refered to men as not that a man is fat, but rather one who has a well-shaped and/or one that is hung, where there both width and [thickness] of his form and his endowment which the [beholder] behinds pleasing. In this example the word ‘big‘ shows an personal interest in an appeasing, satisifying male.
A negative example of ‘big‘:
[Alisha]: what do you you think of that guy?
Susan: who him, hes big?
Alisha: So what he is big?
Susan: look at him, hes a little on the fat side!
Big and fat are not to be confused, because big is used when speaking of muscle ([the figure] generally) and endowment. ❋ Andre1003 (2008)

your very big ❋ Absorbing Stuff (2019)

[omg] [look] how big she is …. she’s [LIZZO] big ! ❋ Lizzotypebig (2019)