large

Adjective

• in an advanced stage of pregnancy
  • was big with child
    
  • was great with child
    

• having broad power and range and scope
  • taking the large view
    
  • a large effect
    
  • a large sympathy
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• ostentatiously lofty in style
  • a man given to large talk
    
  • tumid political prose
    

• fairly large or important in effect; influential
  • played a large role in the negotiations
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• in a boastful manner
  • he talked big all evening
    

• with the wind abaft the beam
  • a ship sailing large
    

• at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

Noun

• a garment size for a large person

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  big(p) , enceinte , expectant , gravid , great(p) , large(p) , heavy(p) , with child(p) , big , prominent , magnanimous , bombastic , declamatory , orotund , tumid , turgid , boastfully , vauntingly
• Antonyms: 
  small , little