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UK
/aʊtsˈaɪz/
]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌsaɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌsaɪz/ ]
NOUN
- an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large)
ADJECTIVE
- larger than normal for its kind
How To Use outsize In A Sentence
- Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
- The men worked extra shifts when malfunctions occurred: heavy machine parts and outsized tools had to be moved.
- With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
- The baby boomers were a population frog moving through the snake of American cultural history, distending its shape by the outsize percentage of the population they represented. Alberta Hunter: Don't Trust Anyone Under 80
- In this heartfelt tribute, friends and colleagues fondly remember an outsize personality. Times, Sunday Times
- Third base once was a position flush with players with outsize offensive numbers.
- For better or worse, he became a master of the grand gesture, grappling with his inner demons and his outsize ego in front of a bemused public. Times, Sunday Times
- So, when we head to Whitby for our holiday, I will take the usual array of beach wear - baggy tops, ankle-length skirts and outsize cardigans.
- The characters involved in this phase of railroading history get less outsized treatment than their predecessors. The Times Literary Supplement
- Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.