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large 音標拼音: [l'ɑrdʒ] a. 大的,大量的,寬大的,廣博的
ad. 大大地,夸大地
n. 大 大的,大量的,寬大的,廣博的大大地,誇大地大 large大 large adv 1: at a distance, wide of something ( as of a mark) 2: with the wind abaft the beam; " a ship sailing large" 3: in a boastful manner; " he talked big all evening" [ synonym: { boastfully}, { vauntingly}, { big}, { large}] 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: fairly large or important in effect; influential; " played a large role in the negotiations" 3: ostentatiously lofty in style; " a man given to large talk"; " tumid political prose" [ synonym: { bombastic}, { declamatory}, { large}, { orotund}, { tumid}, { turgid}] 4: 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}] 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: having broad power and range and scope; " taking the large view"; " a large effect"; " a large sympathy" 7: 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)}] n 1: a garment size for a large personLarge \ Large\ ( l[ aum] rj), a. [ Compar. { Larger} ( l[ aum] r" j[~ e] r); superl. { Largest}.] [ F., fr. L. largus. Cf. { Largo}.] 1. Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to { small}; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. [ 1913 Webster] Note: For linear dimensions, and mere extent, great, and not large, is used as a qualifying word; as, great length, breadth, depth; a great distance; a great height. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. [ 1913 Webster] We have yet large day. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. [ 1913 Webster] I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. -- Felton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Free; unembarrassed. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. -- Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [ Obs.] " Some large jests he will make." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Prodigal in expending; lavish. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship' s course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. [ 1913 Webster] { At large}. ( a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. ( b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. { Common at large}. See under { Common}, n. { Electors at large}, { Representative at large}, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [ U. S.] { To give large}, { To go large}, { To run large}, or { To sail large} ( Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel' s course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See { Large}, a., 8. Syn: Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample; abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive; liberal. [ 1913 Webster]
Large \ Large\, adv. Freely; licentiously. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Large \ Large\, n. ( Mus.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. [ 1913 Webster] 140 Moby Thesaurus words for " large": Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, adipose, altogether, ample, amplitudinous, as a whole, astronomical, at large, at liberty, awesome, beamy, beneficent, big, bighearted, boundless, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, burly, capacious, charitable, chiefly, chunky, colossal, considerable, corpulent, cosmic, eleemosynary, elephantine, eminently, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, free, freehanded, freehearted, galactic, gargantuan, generally, generous, gigantic, giving, good, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted, handsome, healthy, heavy, hefty, hospitable, huge, humongous, husky, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, imposingly, in a body, in general, in the main, infinite, inordinate, jumbo, kind, king- size, large- scale, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, mainly, major, mammoth, man- sized, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, munificent, muscular, numerous, obese, on the loose, open, open- handed, openhanded, openhearted, outsize, overgrown, overweight, philanthropic, portly, princely, prodigious, profuse, prominently, rotund, sizable, sizeable, solid, spacious, staggering, stintless, stocky, stout, strapping, stupendous, sturdy, substantial, tall, thickset, tidy, titanic, tremendous, unconfined, unfettered, ungrudging, unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vast, voluminous, weighty, wide |
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