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humongous

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/
  • /ˌhjuːˈmɒŋɡəs/
  • Northern-England: [çu̟ːˈmʊŋɡəs]
  • Southern-England: [ˌçu̟ːˈmɐŋɡəs]
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  • rhymes with -ʌŋɡəs
  • CMU ARPABET: HH Y UW0 M AO1 NG G AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of an extremely large size.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: enormous, gigantic, ginormous, huge, immense, massive, ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), great big, honkin', hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

(used informally) very large

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a thumping loss

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: banging, thumping, whopping, walloping

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Of expressive origin, likely inspired by huge, with the termination of monstrous.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: ohromný — extremely large
  • Czech: obrovitý — extremely large
  • Czech: obrovitánský — extremely large
  • Czech: obrovský — extremely large
  • Dutch: enorm — extremely large
  • Dutch: gigantisch — extremely large
  • Esperanto: grandega — extremely large
  • Esperanto: giganta — extremely large
  • Esperanto: kolosa — extremely large
  • Finnish: valtava — extremely large
  • Finnish: suunnaton — extremely large
  • Finnish: jättimäinen — extremely large
  • French: énorme — extremely large
  • French: gigantesque — extremely large
  • Galician: alarbe — extremely large
  • Galician: xigantesco — extremely large
  • German: gigantisch — extremely large
  • German: riesig — extremely large
  • Greek: γιγαντιαίος (gigantiaíos) — extremely large
  • Greek: εξαιρετικός (exairetikós) — extremely large
  • Greek: θεόρατος (theóratos) — extremely large
  • Hungarian: óriási — extremely large
  • Hungarian: hatalmas — extremely large
  • Hungarian: irdatlan — extremely large
  • Italian: disumano — extremely large
  • Italian: enorme — extremely large
  • Italian: gigantesco — extremely large
  • Italian: mastodontico — extremely large
  • Northern Kurdish: dêwane — extremely large
  • Latvian: milzīgs — extremely large
  • Latvian: gigantisks — extremely large
  • Portuguese: gigantesco — extremely large
  • Russian: огро́мный (ogrómnyj) — extremely large
  • Russian: гига́нтский (gigántskij) — extremely large
  • Spanish: gigante — extremely large
  • Spanish: enorme — extremely large
  • Swedish: gigantisk — extremely large
  • Swedish: enorm — extremely large
  • Swedish: mastodontisk — extremely large
  • Swedish: jättelik — extremely large
  • Swedish: kolossal — extremely large
  • Tajik: каппа-калон (kappa-kalon) — extremely large
  • Turkish: devasa — extremely large
  • Turkish: kocaman — extremely large
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