enormous

«enormous» in Mova's school dictionary: Very, very large in size, amount or degree; huge — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (enormous; usually not compared)

meaning for a pupil

Very, very large in size, amount or degree; huge. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, giants, whales and monsters are enormous. In maths and science, «enormous numbers» are very large, like the distance to the stars. In everyday talk children say «an enormous pizza» or «an enormous mess». Synonyms: huge, gigantic, massive, giant, vast, colossal; informal «ginormous».

examples

• The blue whale is an enormous animal. tree →
• We ate an enormous bowl of ice cream. tree →
• There was an enormous crowd at the match. tree →
• The giant had enormous feet. tree →
• It took an enormous effort to push the car. tree →
• Space is enormous. tree →
• (informal) That's a ginormous spider! tree →
• After the jackal came an enormous snake. tree →

note

Already strong, so we do not usually say «very enormous»; say «absolutely enormous» or «truly enormous». Starts with a vowel sound: «an enormous». Adverb: «enormously» (very much). In maths it is only a description; it does not give a number.

In the corpora

• A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.
• It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games.
• The inner core stays solid despite the heat because the enormous pressure of everything above squeezes it.
• Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in our air; real stars are enormous and very far away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «enormous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.