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US
/iˈnɔɹməs, iˈnɔɹmɪs, ɪˈnɔɹməs, ɪˈnɔɹmɪs/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈɔːməs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈɔːməs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
an enormous boulder
a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology
tremendous sweeping plains
enormous expenses
a plane took off with a tremendous noise
How To Use enormous In A Sentence
- Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
- Many students derived enormous satisfaction from the course.
- By its nature it will be great for political rights management, because it's an enormously penetrative surveillance tool, and it makes it hard to do anything anonymously involving a computer.
- The main bedroom is enormous.
- Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
- Fresh, vivacious and lively, this wine has enormous energy and vitality.
- Chandler said the surf got enormous on a weekend, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita). Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast
- Thus America has responded to the enormous challenges the economy faces in the short-term and long-term alike with a complete failure of vision and verve. Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics
- The Green Paper is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by a large number of people. ANC Daily News Briefing
- They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn