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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class II. Words Relating to Space |
| Section II. Dimensions |
| 1. General Dimensions |
| 192. Size. |
| NOUN: | SIZE, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness &c. adj.; greatness &c. (of quantity) [See Greatness]; expanse (space) [See Space]; amplitude, mass; proportions. CAPACITY; tonnage or tunnage; cordage; caliber or calibre; scantling [obs.]. CORPULENCE, obesity; plumpness &c. adj.; embonpoint [F.], corporation [colloq.], flesh and blood, lustihood; turgidity (expansion) [See Expansion]. HUGENESS &c. adj.; enormity, immensity; monstrosity. GIANT, Brobdingnagian, Antæus, Goliath, Polyphemus, Colossus, Titan, Titaness, Briareus, Norn, Hercules, Cyclops, Gog and Magog, Gargantua; monster, mammoth, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, jumbo [colloq.], hippopotamus; colossus. LUMP, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad [slang, U. S.], clod, nugget, tun, cord, bushel; thumper [slang], whopper or whapper [colloq.], spanker [slang], strapper [slang]; “Triton among the minnows” [Coriolanus]. mountain, mound; heap (assemblage) [See Assemblage]. FULL-SIZE, life-size; largest portion [See Whole]. |
| VERB: | BE LARGE &c. adj.; become large (expand) [See Expansion]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | LARGE, big; great &c. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive, spacious [See Space]; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent. STOUT, corpulent, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping [colloq.], bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; cornfed, gram-fed [Anglo-Ind.]; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good -case, - condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; club-faced [obs.], chubby-faced. large as life; plump as a -dumpling, - partridge; fat as -a pig, - a quail, - butter, - brawn, - bacon [all colloq.]. HULKY, hulking, unwieldy, lumpish, lubberly, gaunt, spanking [slang.], whacking [colloq.], whopping [colloq.], thumping [colloq.], thundering [colloq.], overgrown; puffy (swollen) [See Expansion]. HUGE, immense, enormous, titanic, mighty; vast, vasty [archaic]; stupendous; monster, monstrous; gigantic; elephantine; giant, giantlike; colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite [See Infinity]. |
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