massive

Meanings

Adjective

• Very large in size or extent.
• Very large or bulky and heavy and solid.
• To a very great extent; total, utter.
• Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
• Outstanding, beautiful.
• Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
• Having a large mass.
• Having any mass.
• Homogenous, unstructured.

Noun

• A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
• A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc.

Related

Similar words

• bulky, heavy, hefty, substantial, weighty
• colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, great, huge, mahoosive , titanic
• consequential, meaningful, overwhelming, significant, weighty
• awesome, super, excellent, stupendous

Opposite words

• insubstantial, light
• dwarf, little, microscopic, midget, minuscule, pint-sized, tiny, wee
• inconsequential, insignificant, piddling, trifling, trivial, unimportant
• lame, stale, disappointing, crappy
• massless

Origin

• From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif. The Irish sense is possibly derived from Irish mas.