enormous
enor·mous
adjective
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”
Origin
From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous.
Phrases
- enormous Lyman-alpha nebula
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