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say it: big
big is an adjective and adverb meaning "above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent". It carries 17 recorded senses.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
“a large city”
“set out for the big city”
“a large sum”
“a big (or large) barn”
“a large family”
“big businesses”
“a big expenditure”
“a large number of newspapers”
“a big group of scientists”
“large areas of the world”
conspicuous in position or importance
“a big figure in the movement”
“big man on campus”
“he's very large in financial circles”
“a prominent citizen”
exhibiting self-importance
“big talk”
feeling self-importance
“too big for his britches”
“had a swelled head”
“he was swelled with pride”
generous and understanding and tolerant
“a heart big enough to hold no grudges”
“that's very big of you to be so forgiving”
“a large and generous spirit”
“a large heart”
“magnanimous toward his enemies”
given or giving freely
“was a big tipper”
“the bounteous goodness of God”
“bountiful compliments”
“a freehanded host”
“a handsome allowance”
“Saturday's child is loving and giving”
“a liberal backer of the arts”
“a munificent gift”
“her fond and openhanded grandfather”
extremely well
“his performance went over big”
in a major way
“the play failed big at the box office”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for big come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.