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swingeing

adj · verb · 4 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
  • rhymes with -ɪndʒɪŋ

1

adj

Meaning 1

Huge, immense.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: whopping, ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, 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, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, yuge

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Heavy, powerful, scathing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a swingeing verbal attack

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

present participle and gerund of swinge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

severe; punishingly bad

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • swingeing taxation
  • swingeing damages awarded by the judge

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From swinge + -ing. Swinge is derived from Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swengan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).