big

adj

1. large, huge, enormous, Chiefly Brit. Inf. whacking, prodigious, immense, colossal, monstrous; gigantic, giant, tremendous, Brobdingnagian, towering, tall, overgrown; great, vast, extensive, spacious, capatious, voluminous; grand, grandiose, majestic, august.

2. bulky, hulky, hulking; massive, massy, ponderous, gargantuan, elephantine; beefy, burly, brawny, muscular, strapping, robust, stalwart, bouncing, bouncy; thickset, stocky, solid, heavy, chunky.

3. obese, overweight, corpulent, gross; paunchy, potbellied, round-bellied, big-bellied, abdominous; fat, plump, fleshy, rotund, buxom, well-fed; pudgy, Chiefly Brit. podgy, chubby, portly, stout; swollen, bloated, puffy.

4. filled, brimming, overflowing; verging, bordering, on the brink.

5. important, salient, significant, consequential, weighty, influential, powerful; notable, noteworthy, esteemed, prominent, outstanding, famous, well-known, illustrious, renowned; eminent, distinguished, elevated, exalted, high, top; chief, head, leading, foremost, prime, supreme, paramount; main, principal, primary, capital, essential, radical.

6. boastful, bombastic, inflated, swell-headed; pretentious, haughty, arrogant, pompous.

7. magnanimous, generous, unselfish, altruistic; gracious, kindly, kindhearted, benevolent, beneficent, humane, forgiving; just, fair, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced; noble, honorable, high-minded, lofty, sublime, princely, chivalrous, heroic; splendid, superb, glorious, magnificent.

8. loud, orotund, resounding, stentorian, booming, deafening.