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/ɪnˈɔrməs/ /ɪnˈɔrmɪs/ /inˈɔrməs/ /inˈɔrmɪs/ Listen

adjective

Enormous adj.

Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." "This enormous state." "The hoop's enormous size." "Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait."

Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. "That detestable profession of a life so enormous."

Synonyms: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous. 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." "Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive."

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"Enormous" Quotes from Famous Books

... vnder Globe, That by thy comfortable Beames I may Peruse this Letter. Nothing almost sees miracles But miserie. I know 'tis from Cordelia, Who hath most fortunately beene inform'd Of my obscured course. And shall finde time From this enormous State, seeking to giue Losses their remedies. All weary and o're-watch'd, Take vantage heauie eyes, not to behold This shamefull lodging. Fortune goodnight, Smile once more, ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... guide-book and map; but no guide-book was to be obtained in all London, except one small pamphlet about a dozen pages long; while at our best-known map shop the only thing we could find was an enormous cardboard chart costing thirty shillings. No one ever dreamed of going to Finland. Nevertheless, Finland is not the home of barbarians, as some folk then imagined; neither do Polar bears walk continually about the streets, ...

— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... Peru, and in 1618, a company was formed in London, for the express purpose of penetrating to the country of gold, and to Timbuctoo. Exaggeration stepped in to inflame the minds of the speculators, with the enormous wealth which awaited them in the interior of Africa. The roofs of the houses were represented to be covered with plates of gold, that the bottoms of the rivers glistened with the precious metal, and the mountains had only to be excavated, to yield a profusion of the metallic ...

— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... penetrate the mystery of his enormous wealth, unless, indeed, he were one of those famous American bonanza kings, or at least the son of one, and obtained his wealth ...

— The Boy Nihilist - or, Young America in Russia • Allan Arnold

... * Others have looked at society with far deeper consideration than I. I have felt so unrelated to this sphere, that it has not been hard for me to be true. Also, I do not believe in Society. I feel that every man must struggle with these enormous ills, in some way, in every age; in that of Moses, or Plato, or Angelo, as in our own. So it has not moved me much to see my time so corrupt, but it would if I were in ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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