The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - big adj.

1) large, great, grand; huge, enormous, immense, gigantic, giant, tremendous, colossal, Brobdingnagian, jumbo, Colloq Brit socking or whacking big or great, US humongous: We live in a big house in the country. 2) ample, hefty, huge, bulky, fat, obese; large, hulking, beefy, burly, brawny, strapping, gargantuan, elephantine, enormous, gigantic, immense, monstrous: The sumo wrestler was one of the biggest men I'd ever seen. 3) tall, grown, mature, grown-up, large: Christopher is certainly big for his age. 4) important, significant, outstanding, weighty, consequential, major, grave, momentous, notable, noteworthy, telling: Changing careers can be one of the biggest decisions of your life. 5) important, prominent, illustrious, noteworthy, notable, renowned, eminent, distinguished, esteemed: Mr Johnson is a big man in our town. 6) generous, magnanimous, charitable, unselfish, giving: It was very big of her to take on the support of the orphanage. 7) popular, famous, well-known, successful: That band is very big with the kids these days. 8) capital, large, upper case, majuscule: Always spell London with a big L. --adv. 9) pompously, boastfully, conceitedly, arrogantly, pretentiously: Alfred talks big at home, but he's very modest when he's with his friends. 10) successfully, well, oustandingly,effectively: I think your speech went over big with those opposed to the new budget.