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huge
English
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian ka?karas (“hill”), Old High German h?h (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English h?ah (“high”). More at high.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /hju?d??/, [çu??d??]
- (US)
- (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA(key): /ju?d?/
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): [h?ud?]
Adjective
huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
- Very large.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
- (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast.
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Antonyms
- (very large): tiny, small, minuscule, midget, dwarf
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- huge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- huge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- e-hug, eugh, gehu
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hoige, houge, hugge, hoge, hogge, hoege, heug, heuge, hogh
Etymology
From Old French ahuge, a form of ahoge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hiu?d?(?)/
Adjective
huge
- huge, large, enormous
- great, severe, excessive, prominent
- numerous, plentiful
Descendants
- English: huge
- Scots: huge, hudge
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
huge
- hugely, greatly
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Middle French
Noun
huge f (plural huges)
- market stall
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horrible
English
Etymology
First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(?re) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h???b?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h???b?l/, /?h???b?l/, [-b??]
- (NYC, Philadelphia, Ireland) IPA(key): /?h???b?l/
Noun
horrible (plural horribles)
- A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
- 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
- A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
- 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
- The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
- 2000, John Dean, CNN interview, January 21, 2000:
- I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
- 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights
- Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Translations
Adjective
horrible (comparative horribler or more horrible, superlative horriblest or most horrible)
- Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- Tremendously bad.
- 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:
- Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.
- 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:frightening
- See Thesaurus:bad
Related terms
- horrific
- horrify
- horror
- horrendous
Translations
References
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible (epicene, plural horribles)
- horrible
Related terms
- horror
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /u?ri.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /o?ri.ble/
Adjective
horrible (masculine and feminine plural horribles)
- horrible
Derived terms
- horriblement
Related terms
- horror
French
Etymology
From Old French horrible, orrible, orible, borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /?.?ibl/
Adjective
horrible (plural horribles)
- horrible; causing horror.
Related terms
- horreur
Further reading
- “horrible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- horríbel
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible m or f (plural horribles)
- horrible
Derived terms
- horriblemente
Related terms
- horror
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible
- horrible
Descendants
- English: horrible
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible (plural horribles)
- horrible
Derived terms
- horriblemente
Related terms
- horror
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