Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Slang Extremely large; enormous: "humongous baked potatoes piled high with sour cream” ( Boston Globe).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of an extremely large size.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (used informally) very large
Etymologies
Examples
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But the word humongous was coined during my lifetime, and Random House Unabridged gives the times of first usage as 1965-70.
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D.S. Chisholm Kent, Connecticut We do not know the word humongous here, but I have found used the word ginormous [gi (gantic + e) normous] among our teen-age children and their peers for the last three or four years.
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The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are "humongous" and the central bank doesn't fully understand the potential effects, said Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan."
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The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are "humongous" and the central bank doesn't fully understand the ...
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Perhaps the answer to future nuclear plants is not the "humongous" plants the author is against, but to utilize the highly developed, reliable, and effecient nuclear plants found on our carriers and subs.
Jimmy Seidita: Ten Things to Consider Before we Start Building Nuclear Plants in Illinois Again
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The big I would ay "humongous"! battalions look very impressive.
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While it is "humongous" as far as slugs go, just about all of my students outweigh it by at least a few stone.
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~ A star with a tail -- and a tale to tell -- Scientists are surprised to find a 'humongous' trail of material behind the well-known object Mira.
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She was wearing a friend's "humongous" swimsuit that did nothing to flatter her.
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MongoDB derives its name from "humongous" and is a document-oriented database that can scale-out as demand increases by adding nodes on a server cluster.
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