huge

«huge» in Mova's school dictionary: very, very big in size, amount or importance — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (huge, huger, hugest — rare; more huge)

meaning for a pupil

Huge means very, very big in size, amount or importance. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, «huge» describes big things: a huge dog, a huge pile of homework, a huge mistake. In science, the Sun is huge compared with Earth, blue whales are huge, and space is huge. In maths, «huge» means much bigger than usual, but it is not exact — use numbers to say how big. In stories, giants and dragons are huge, and «a huge surprise» shows strong feeling.

examples

• An elephant is a huge animal. tree →
• The Sun is huge compared with the Earth. tree →
• There was a huge queue at the ice cream van. tree →
• Thanks a lot, that's a huge help! tree →
• We had a huge thunderstorm last night. tree →
• The giant had huge feet. tree →
• A blue whale is huger than any dinosaur. tree →
• He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables. tree →

note

«Huge» = very big; bigger than «big» or «large»; similar: enormous, gigantic, massive, giant. Comparative «huger/hugest» exist but people often say «bigger» or «even more huge». Opposite: «tiny». Pronounced «hyooj».

In the corpora

• Burnout means being worn down by too much work and stress for too long, until even small tasks feel huge.
• Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
• The answer is worked out on huge computers far away, in buildings called data centres; nobody is typing it.
• "Large language model" means a huge program that has learned the patterns of how words are used.
• Chatbots are good at writing stories because they learned from huge numbers of stories.

Trees and pragmatics

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