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How to pronounce enormous in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms tremendous
Derivation enormity, enormousness


an enormous boulder.
enormous expenses.

Examples of enormous

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The price tag is $2,700, which probably sounds like an enormous sum for a dress.
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Cairenes poured into the square from several directions and in enormous numbers.
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Such a massive database would carry both enormous potential and enormous danger.
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The vast amount of detail in the novel shows the enormous research Mitchell did.
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We're in the early stages of fairly widespread enormous wealth around the world.
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They kept the ball tight an built enormous pressure through rugged forward play.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The weekend carvery and the enormous Big Man's Breakfast are highly recommended.
From the telegraph.co.uk
We were 1,000 miles from land when our boat was pitch-poled by an enormous wave.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The creature, though, puts an enormous amount of energy into forming a mushroom.
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More examples
  • Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a ...
  • (enormously) extremely; "he was enormously popular"
  • (enormousness) unusual largeness in size or extent or number
  • Enormous are an English band of the Indie, power pop, genre from Derby, England.
  • Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary; Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous; Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc
  • (enormously) enhanced his judgement
  • (Enormousness) refers to hugeness: The enormousness of the Titanic did not save it from an even larger iceberg.
  • No one really knows how large the Internet is. Our knowledge is incomplete in part because new hosts are added daily, in part because one Internet access point can support hundreds or thousands of machines connected through that single access point, and in part because nobody has laid the basis ...
  • Russian codename for effort to build the Atomic bomb and Soviet efforts to obtain information on it through espionage. Directed first by Viacheslav Molotov then by Lavrenty Beria.