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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUGE, a.
1. Very large or great; enormous; applied to bulk or size; as a huge mountain; a huge ox.
2. It is improperly applied to space and distance, in the sense of great, vast, immense; as a hugh space; a hugh difference. This is inelegant, or rather vulgar.
3. In colloquial language, very great; enormous; as a huge feeder.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (huger; hugest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French ahuge Date: 12th century very large or extensive: as a. of great size or area b. great in scale or degree <a huge deficit> c. great in scope or character <a dancer of huge talent> Synonyms: see enormous • hugely adverb • hugeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 extremely large; enormous. 2 (of immaterial things) very great (a huge success). Derivatives: hugeness n. Etymology: ME huge f. OF ahuge, ahoge, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Huge Huge, a. [Compar. Huger; superl. Hugest.] [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.] Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. ``The huge confusion.'' --Chapman. ``A huge filly.'' --Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. --Shak. Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(huger, hugest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Something or someone that is huge is extremely large in size. ...a tiny little woman with huge black glasses... = massive ? tiny ADJ 2. Something that is huge is extremely large in amount or degree. I have a huge number of ties because I never throw them away... = enormous ADJ • hugely In summer this hotel is a hugely popular venue for wedding receptions. = enormously ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v 3. Something that is huge exists or happens on a very large scale, and involves a lot of different people or things. Another team is looking at the huge problem of debts between companies... = enormous ? tiny ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Vast, bulky, enormous, immense, stupendous, gigantic, colossal, elephantine, Herculean, Cyclopean, very great, very large.

Moby Thesaurus

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, leviathan, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty, whopping