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big 音标拼音: [b'ɪg] a. 大的,巨大的;重要的,重大的 大的,巨大的;重要的,重大的 big adv 1: extremely well; " his performance went over big" 2: in a boastful manner; " he talked big all evening" [ synonym: { boastfully}, { vauntingly}, { big}, { large}] 3: on a grand scale; " think big" [ ant: { small}] 4: in a major way; " the play failed big at the box office" adj 1: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; " a large city"; " set out for the big city"; " a large sum"; " a big ( or large) barn"; " a large family"; " big businesses"; " a big expenditure"; " a large number of newspapers"; " a big group of scientists"; " large areas of the world" [ synonym: { large}, { big}] [ ant: { little}, { small}] 2: significant; " graduation was a big day in his life" 3: very intense; " a bad headache"; " in a big rage"; " had a big ( or bad) shock"; " a bad earthquake"; " a bad storm" [ synonym: { bad}, { big}] 4: loud and firm; " a big voice"; " big bold piano sounds" 5: conspicuous in position or importance; " a big figure in the movement"; " big man on campus"; " he' s very large in financial circles"; " a prominent citizen" [ synonym: { big}, { large}, { prominent}] 6: prodigious; " big spender"; " big eater"; " heavy investor" [ synonym: { big( a)}, { heavy( a)}] 7: exhibiting self- importance; " big talk" [ synonym: { boastful}, { braggart( a)}, { bragging( a)}, { braggy}, { big}, { cock- a- hoop}, { crowing}, { self- aggrandizing}, { self- aggrandising}] 8: feeling self- importance; " too big for his britches"; " had a swelled head"; " he was swelled with pride" [ synonym: { big}, { swelled}, { vainglorious}] 9: ( of animals) fully developed; " an adult animal"; " a grown woman" [ synonym: { adult}, { big}, { full- grown}, { fully grown}, { grown}, { grownup}] 10: marked by intense physical force; " a big wind" 11: generous and understanding and tolerant; " a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; " that' s very big of you to be so forgiving"; " a large and generous spirit"; " a large heart"; " magnanimous toward his enemies" [ synonym: { big}, { large}, { magnanimous}] 12: given or giving freely; " was a big tipper"; " the bounteous goodness of God"; " bountiful compliments"; " a freehanded host"; " a handsome allowance"; " Saturday' s child is loving and giving"; " a liberal backer of the arts"; " a munificent gift"; " her fond and openhanded grandfather" [ synonym: { big}, { bighearted}, { bounteous}, { bountiful}, { freehanded}, { handsome}, { giving}, { liberal}, { openhanded}] 13: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; " was big with child"; " was great with child" [ synonym: { big( p)}, { enceinte}, { expectant}, { gravid}, { great( p)}, { large( p)}, { heavy( p)}, { with child( p)}] Big \ Big\ ( b[ i^] g), a. [ Compar. { Bigger}; superl. { Biggest}.] [ Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac' h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. biggiligr, ( properly) habitable; ( then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build, akin to E. be.] 1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. " He' s too big to go in there." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [ 1913 Webster] [ Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. [ 1913 Webster] God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Big is often used in self- explaining compounds; as, big- boned; big- sounding; big- named; big- voiced. [ 1913 Webster] { To talk big}, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously. [ 1913 Webster] I talked big to them at first. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross. [ 1913 Webster] Big
Big \ Big\, Bigg \ Bigg\, v. t. [ OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to inhabit, to build, b? a ( neut.) to dwell ( active) to make ready. See { Boor}, and { Bound}.] To build. [ Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster]
Big \ Big\, Bigg \ Bigg\, n. [ OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] ( Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four- rowed kind. [ 1913 Webster] " Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." -- New English Dict. [ 1913 Webster] Big180 Moby Thesaurus words for " big": adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big- league, big- name, big- time, bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull, bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock- full, cloyed, clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential, considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned, deified, distended, domineering, double- barreled, earthshaking, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely, fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified, glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun, great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown- up, handsome, haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high- faluting, high- flown, high- headed, high- minded, high- nosed, high- powered, high- sounding, high- swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity- toity, hugely, hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important, imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large- scale, largehearted, liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man- sized, marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful, mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble- minded, nubile, numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded, overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient, patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse- proud, replete, roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied, self- important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck- up, stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen, tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage, voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world- shaking |
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