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enormous

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 20.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
  2. adjective Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
  3. adjective Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
    The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

Similar words

tremendous large big extremely staggering extraordinary amazing inordinate drastic exceptional

Often followed by

amount and number quantities size increase power influence amounts

Word family

enormity enormously enormousness enormousnesses

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