Synonym: adult, considerable, grand, great, grown-up, important, large, mature. Antonym: little, small. Similar words: bigger, a big deal, a big shot, ambiguous. Meaning: [bɪg] 
adj. 1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent 2. significant 3. conspicuous in position or importance 4. very intense 5. loud and firm 6. prodigious 7. (of animals) fully developed 8. marked by intense physical force 9. feeling self-importance 10. exhibiting self-importance 11. generous and understanding and tolerant 12. given or giving freely 13. in an advanced stage of pregnancy. adv. 1. extremely well 2. in a boastful manner 3. on a grand scale 4. in a major way.
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1. Big fish eat little fish.
2. Speak softly and carry a big stick. 
3. Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions.
4. I get very nervous before a big race.
5. The big clubs siphon off all the best players.
6. This computer has one big failing.
7. The restaurant has suffered a big drop in trade.
8. Mexico had the support of the big western governments.
9. I’m a big fan of Italian food.
10. He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises.
11. Her eyes are big with tears.
11. Wish you can benefit from sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
12. No big deal. I’ll ask John to play.
13. The skirt was too big around the waist.
14. The experiment was a big success.
15. The big Bentley purred along the road.
16. With electric cars there is a big environmental payoff.
17. They stood under a big tree.
18. I was scared of the big dog.
19. The canoe is made of one big trunk.
20. In the big fire, some trees survived.
21. The big tree was struck by lightning.
22. The big storms in August refilled the reservoirs.
23. All my children are big eaters.
24. He is representative of a big firm.
25. The new town hall is a big building.
26. Big searchlights are searching the sky.
27. This jacket’s too big, even with a sweater underneath.
28. We are going out for big results.
29. He inherited a big fortune from his.
30. Could you do me a big favor?
Definition of Big
of considerable size, extent, or intensity
Examples of Big in a sentence
Sometimes the world felt so big and she was just a tiny speck on the surface of the planet.
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The extra large pizza was so big that it nearly covered the entire table.
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Lydia came from a big family of eight brothers and sisters.
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The fisherman knew the trout was big, but when it weighed in at 28 pounds he was stunned.
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The shirt was at least three sizes too big for the small child.
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adjective, big·ger, big·gest.
large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity.
of major concern, importance, gravity, or the like: a big problem.
outstanding for a specified quality: a big liar; a big success.
important, as in influence, standing, or wealth: a big man in his field.
elder: my big sister.
doing business or conducted on a large scale; major in size or importance: big government.
consisting of the largest or most influential companies in an industry: Big steel wants to lower prices, but the smaller mills don’t.
Informal. known or used widely; popular: Nouvelle cuisine became big in the 1970s.
(of clothing or a clothing design) made of or distinguished by voluminous fabric that is loosely or softly shaped and fitted:a big shirt; the big look.
(of a wine) having more than average flavor, body, and alcoholic content.
filled; brimming: eyes big with tears.
Obsolete. very strong; powerful.
adverb
Informal. boastfully; pretentiously: to act big; to talk big.
Informal. with great success; successfully: to go over big.
noun
the bigs, Sports Slang. the highest level of professional competition, as the major leagues in baseball.
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Idioms about big
be big on, to have a special liking or enthusiasm for: Mother is big on family get-togethers.
Origin of big
1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English big(ge), beg(ge); of unknown origin
OTHER WORDS FROM big
biggish, adjectivebigly, adverb, adjective
Words nearby big
biform, Bifrost, bifter, bifunctional, bifurcate, big, biga, bigamist, bigamous, bigamy, big and bold
Other definitions for big (2 of 2)
verb (used with object), bigged, big·ging.British Dialect.
Origin of big
2
First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English biggen, beggen, buggen, originally, “to inhabit, reside,” from Old Norse byggja, byggva “to inhabit, settle,” cognate with Old English bū(i)an, German bauen “to build, erect”
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MORE ABOUT BIG
What is a basic definition of big?
Big describes something that is large in height, weight, size, or amount. Big can also describe something that is significant or, informally, something that is popular. Big has many other senses as an adjective and a few as an adverb and a noun.
Big can describe things that are tall, wide, massive, or plentiful. It’s a synonym of words such as large, great, and huge, describing something as being notably high in number or scale in some way.
- Real-life examples: The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Jupiter is a big planet. You would need a big box to hold 300 books. Skyscrapers are big buildings.
- Used in a sentence: The restaurant brought out a big table to seat all 30 of us.
Big also describes something that is very important, worrisome, alarming, influential, or similarly worthy of notice.
- Real-life examples: Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is a big mistake. A comet hitting Earth would be a big issue. The discovery of life on Mars would be big news.
- Used in a sentence: The mold in our house turned into a big problem when we found out it was toxic.
Big is used informally to mean that something is popular or widely known.
- Real-life examples: Disco was big in the 1970s. The internet started to become big in the 1990s when computers became affordable and connection speeds improved.
- Used in a sentence: The actor was big 10 years ago but now nobody knows who he is.
Where does big come from?
The first records of big come from around 1250. It comes from the Middle English big(ge), but any earlier origin is unknown.
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How is big used in real life?
Big is a very common word that is most often used to describe something as being large in some way.
Big spider in my room so I’ve run away to another room 😂
— Shari ✨💙 (@Sharichantel) November 30, 2020
Potentially 182 days til hairdressers are open .. I’m in big trouble 👧🏻😂👧🏻
— Joshua Windass (@WindassJnr) April 24, 2020
Someone needs to bring the harmonica back to the spot light. It was big in the 90s and then just died in music. Someone bring it back!
— Caleb Combs (@Krouton_5) December 4, 2019
Try using big!
Is big used correctly in the following sentence?
The dog was so big that my friend thought it was a small horse.
MORE ABOUT BIG
What is a basic definition of big?
Big describes something that is large in height, weight, size, or amount. Big can also describe something that is significant or, informally, something that is popular. Big has many other senses as an adjective and a few as an adverb and a noun.
Big can describe things that are tall, wide, massive, or plentiful. It’s a synonym of words such as large, great, and huge, describing something as being notably high in number or scale in some way.
- Real-life examples: The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. Jupiter is a big planet. You would need a big box to hold 300 books. Skyscrapers are big buildings.
- Used in a sentence: The restaurant brought out a big table to seat all 30 of us.
Big also describes something that is very important, worrisome, alarming, influential, or similarly worthy of notice.
- Real-life examples: Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is a big mistake. A comet hitting Earth would be a big issue. The discovery of life on Mars would be big news.
- Used in a sentence: The mold in our house turned into a big problem when we found out it was toxic.
Big is used informally to mean that something is popular or widely known.
- Real-life examples: Disco was big in the 1970s. The internet started to become big in the 1990s when computers became affordable and connection speeds improved.
- Used in a sentence: The actor was big 10 years ago but now nobody knows who he is.
Where does big come from?
The first records of big come from around 1250. It comes from the Middle English big(ge), but any earlier origin is unknown.
Did you know … ?
How is big used in real life?
Big is a very common word that is most often used to describe something as being large in some way.
Big spider in my room so I’ve run away to another room 😂
— Shari ✨💙 (@Sharichantel) November 30, 2020
Potentially 182 days til hairdressers are open .. I’m in big trouble 👧🏻😂👧🏻
— Joshua Windass (@WindassJnr) April 24, 2020
Someone needs to bring the harmonica back to the spot light. It was big in the 90s and then just died in music. Someone bring it back!
— Caleb Combs (@Krouton_5) December 4, 2019
Try using big!
Is big used correctly in the following sentence?
The dog was so big that my friend thought it was a small horse.
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What are other ways to say big?
Something that is big is large in size, height, width, or amount. How is big different from great and large? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
Words related to big
colossal, considerable, enormous, fat, full, gigantic, hefty, huge, immense, massive, sizable, substantial, tremendous, vast, leading, main, popular, powerful, serious, significant
How to use big in a sentence
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What we do know, as the report noted, is “the drop-off will be higher for more populated locations like big cities, with smaller reductions for outdoor and less-populated destinations.”
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It was a broad-based drop that saw the big tech rally fade and travel and retail stocks tank on reopening worries.
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A big thing we are leading the charge on is the … language that’s been used in gaming that has been tolerated.
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In essence, clean rooms have enabled the big tech companies to become channel-specific agencies for their advertisers.
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Now that the first wave of big announcements is winding down, raceAhead will be turning our attention to the nuts and bolts of the work that must happen in the longer term.
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In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
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Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
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The big room at King’s Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
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There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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Big Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.
British Dictionary definitions for big (1 of 2)
adjective bigger or biggest
of great or considerable size, height, weight, number, power, or capacity
having great significance; importanta big decision
important through having power, influence, wealth, authority, etcthe big four banks
(intensifier usually qualifying something undesirable)a big dope
informal considerable in extent or intensity (esp in the phrase in a big way)
- eldermy big brother
- grown-upwhen you’re big, you can stay up later
- generous; magnanimousthat’s very big of you
- (in combination)big-hearted
(often foll by with) brimming; fullmy heart is big with sadness
extravagant; boastfulhe’s full of big talk
(of wine) full-bodied, with a strong aroma and flavour
too big for one’s boots or too big for one’s breeches conceited; unduly self-confident
in an advanced stage of pregnancy (esp in the phrase big with child)
big on informal enthusiastic aboutthat company is big on research
adverb informal
boastfully; pretentiously (esp in the phrase talk big)
in an exceptional way; wellhis talk went over big with the audience
on a grand scale (esp in the phrase think big)
Derived forms of big
biggish, adjectivebigness, noun
Word Origin for big
C13: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian dialect bugge big man
British Dictionary definitions for big (2 of 2)
verb bigs, bigging, bigged or bug (bʌɡ) Scot
to build
to excavate (earth) into a pile
Word Origin for big
from Old Norse byggja; related to Old English būian to inhabit
Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Other Idioms and Phrases with big
In addition to the idioms beginning with big
- big and bold
- big as life
- big bucks
- big cheese
- big daddy
- big deal
- big enchilada
- big fish in a small pond
- big head, have a
- big league
- big mouth, have a
- big of one
- big on
- big shot
- big stink
- big time
- big top
- big wheel
also see:
- go over big
- great (big) guns
- hit it big
- in a big way
- little frog in a big pond
- make a federal case (big deal)
- talk big
- think big
- too big for one’s breeches
- what’s the (big) idea
Also see underbigger.
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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
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- 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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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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