large

adj

1. big, great, huge, enormous, colossal, herculean, mighty; prodigious, gigantic, giant, gigan-tean, monstrous, monumental; stupendous, tremendous, towering, staggering, imposing, mountainous; tall, high, grand, grandiose, great big, Sl. humongous, Sl. gigando; sizable, considerable, goodly, substantial, excessive; titanic, cyclopean, Atlantean, Brobdingnag-ian; mammoth, jumbo, ponderous, massive, massy, gargantuan, elephantine; leviathan, whalelike, dino-saurian, dinotherian, megatherian; oversize, king-size, man-size, giant-size, overlarge, Archaic. mickle; All Inf. whopping, spanking, walloping, thumping, thundering, whacking, banging.

2. extensive, broad, expansive, wide, large-scale; immense, vast, sweeping, panoramic, far-reaching, far-flung, wide-reaching, wide-ranging; unlimited, limitless, illimitable, unbounded, boundless, measureless, interminable, endless, infinite; spacious, capacious, roomy, ample, generous, copious, commodious, voluminous.

3. burly, stout, heavy, thickset, heavyset, stocky, chunky; beefy, brawny, husky, sturdy, strapping, well-built; hulky, hulking, bulky, gross; muscular, hefty, stalwart, rugged, solid, strong, powerful; fat, fatty, weighty, obese, corpulent, adipose, rotund, portly; hypertrophic, swollen, tumid, pot-bellied, Archaic. gor-bellied, bloated, pregnant, puffy; beamy, hippy, spread out, outspread, splay, thick, hippopotamic; bosomy, Inf. busty, top-heavy, fleshy.

4. comprehensive, encyclopedic, compendious, of great scope; inclusive, all-inclusive, exhaustive, all-embracing; general, universal, worldwide, widespread, ecumenical.

5. at large

a. at liberty, free, unconfined, unconstrained, unrestrained, uncaught; escaped, missing, wanted; truant, fugitive, runaway.b. at length, to a large extent, to a great degree, greatly, considerably, much.c. as a whole, generally, in the main, for the most part, mainly, chiefly, principally, on the whole, as a rule, by and large, in general.