big
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Of great size, large.
Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
Đồng nghĩa: ample, huge, large, sizeable, stour, jumbo, massive, ample, big, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
- 2.
(figuratively, sometimes)(sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
She was big with child.
Đồng nghĩa: full, great, heavy, big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fertilized, full, gestating, gravid, great, have a bun in the oven, heavy, hormonal, in a family way, in the club, in the pudding club, knocked up, preg, pregs, preggers, preggie, preggo, pregnant, pupped, quick, up the duff, up the kyte, up the stick, up the stump, up the spout, with child
- 3.
(informal) Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
- 4.
(informal)Adult; (of a child) older.
Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
She did it all on her own like a big girl.
By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
Đồng nghĩa: adult, fully grown, grown up, adult, big, developed, full-grown, grown, grown-ass, grown up, grownup, mature
- 5.
(informal)Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
That's very big of you; thank you!
I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
- 6.
(informal)Important or significant.
What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
Đồng nghĩa: essential, paramount, weighty, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fateful, fatefraught, fatesome, heavy, pivotal, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty
- 7.
Popular.
That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
Đồng nghĩa: all the rage, in demand, well liked
- 8.
(of a city) Populous.
- 9.
(informal)Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
You are a big liar. Why are you in such a big hurry?
- 10.
(capitalized, humorous, often, sometimes)(of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
big money
Big Tech, Big Steel
Big Science
There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
Why are you so enthusiastic about putting cantaloupe in your smoothie? Did Big Melon buy you off? [humorous]
- 11.
(informal)Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
Đồng nghĩa: fanatical, mad, worked up, animated, ardent, avid, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], bubbly, eager, earnest, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, feverish, gassed, geeked, gung ho, hearty, high-spirited, impassioned, juiced, keen, lit up, lively, mad, motivated, passionate, raring, rip-roaring, souped-up, stimulated, thrilled, torrid, vehement, vibrant, vivacious, wild, worked up, wrought-up, zealous, zestful
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
In a loud manner.
- 2.
In a boasting manner.
He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
- 3.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
He won big betting on the croquet championship.
Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
Đồng nghĩa: greatly, hugely, largely, massively, bigly
- 4.
On a large scale, expansively.
You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- 5.
(colloquial)Hard; with great force.
He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Someone or something that is large in stature.
- 2.
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
Đồng nghĩa: big shot
- 3.
(in plural)(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
Đồng nghĩa: big leagues
- 4.
(university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- 5.
(ageplay) The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
- 6.
(Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable)One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To inhabit; occupy.
- 2.
(Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, reflexive)To locate oneself.
- 3.
(Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To build; erect; fashion.
- 4.
(Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive)To dwell; have a dwelling.
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big, bigge (powerful, strong), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse -. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (swollen up, thick), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (to swell), in which case big would be related to bogey]], bugbear, and bug.