enormous

UK /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ US /ɪˈnoɹ.məs/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].

2

Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.

how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.

Men would prove wolves and vipers; tigers and dragons mixt in one and the same person to each other. O bless God for this great gift of Princes and Judges to rule the wicked and enormous world and to sway the scepter of righteousness […]

3

Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

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