enormous
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enormous (comparative more enormous, superlative most enormous)
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- (obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 105:
- 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 [...].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 105:
- (obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous
- Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
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- See also Wikisaurus:gigantic
[edit] Translations
extremely large
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- Anagrams of emnoorsu
- nemorous