Definition of big

"big" in the adjective sense

1. large, big

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"

2. big

significant

"graduation was a big day in his life"

3. bad, big

very intense

"a bad headache"

"in a big rage"

"had a big (or bad) shock"

"a bad earthquake"

"a bad storm"

4. big

loud and firm

"a big voice"

"big bold piano sounds"

5. big, large, prominent

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"

6. big, heavy

prodigious

"big spender"

"big eater"

"heavy investor"

7. boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising

exhibiting self-importance

"big talk"

8. big, swelled, vainglorious

feeling self-importance

"too big for his britches"

"had a swelled head"

"he was swelled with pride"

9. adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup

of animals) fully developed

"an adult animal"

"a grown woman"

10. big

marked by intense physical force

"a big wind"

11. big, large, magnanimous

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"

12. big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded

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"

13. big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child

in an advanced stage of pregnancy

"was big with child"

"was great with child"

"big" in the adverb sense

1. big

extremely well

"his performance went over big"

2. boastfully, vauntingly, big, large

in a boastful manner

"he talked big all evening"

3. big

on a grand scale

"think big"

4. big

in a major way

"the play failed big at the box office"

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Quotations for big

A big head and little wit. [ Proverb ]

Word by word big books are made. [ French Proverb ]

Big words seldom accompany good deeds. [ Danish Proverb ]

His brain is not big enough for his skull. [ Proverb ]

Make not your sail too big for the ballast. [ Proverb ]

Dashing in big drops on the narrow pane,
And making mournful music for the mind,
While plays his interlude the wizzard wind,
I hear the singing of the frequent rain. [ William H. Burleigh ]

Love makes fools of us all, big and little. [ Thackeray ]

He looks as big as if he had eaten bull-beef. [ Proverb ]

Bent over her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. [ John Langhorne ]

What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, ate bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of big words and feathers many go to the pound. [ German Proverb ]

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]

The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]

Little girls are won with dolls, big ones with oaths. [ A. Ricard ]

He carries too big a gun for me, I must not engage him. [ Proverb ]

Turn to the press - its teeming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing day;
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks.
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. [ Sprague ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. [ Proverb ]

The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. [ Italian Proverb ]

He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass. [ Proverb ]

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Better one's House be too little one day, than too big all the year after. [ Proverb ]

Big destinies of nations or of persons are not founded gratis in this world. [ Carlyle ]

Sweet tears! the awful language eloquent of infinite affection, far too big for words. [ Pollok ]

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]

Codes are treacherous seas in which the poor barks of smugglers perish, while big corsairs traverse them under full sail. [ E. Souvestre ]

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with. [ Ellen DeGeneres ]

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. [ Hazlitt ]

Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go Whoa! Whoa! and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. [ Dr. Johnson ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

big in Scrabble®

The word big is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters big:

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big in Words With Friends™

The word big is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters big:

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Words within the letters of big

3 letter words in big (1 word)

big + 1 blank (1 word)

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bigamist bigamists

bigamous bigamously

bigamy

bigfoot bigfoots

bigger

biggest

biggish

bighead bigheadedness

bighearted bigheartedly

bighearted bigheartedness

bighorn bighorns

bigleague

bigly

bigmouth bigmouthed

bigness

bigonial

bigot bigoted unbigoted

bigot bigotries

bigot bigotry

bigot bigots

bigram ambigram ambigramist ambigramists

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bigraph bigraphs

bigshot bigshots

bigwig bigwigs

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