huge

Meaning

Adjective

• Very large.
• Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.

Related

Similar words

• colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast.

Opposite words

• tiny, small, minuscule, midget, dwarf

Origin

• From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge, from a hoge, from a + hoge, from Frankish *haug, *houg or Old Norse haugr; both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós, from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg ("mound") (compare related German Hügel ("hill")), Old Norse haugr ("mound"), Lithuanian kaũkaras ("hill"), Old High German hōh ("high") (whence German hoch), Old English hēah ("high"). More at high.