| Large 1. (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. 2. (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. 3. (superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. 4. (superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. 5. (superl.) Free; unembarrassed. 6. (superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. 7. (superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish. 8. (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. 9. (adv.) Freely; licentiously. 10. (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. Thesaurus Entries Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, adipose, altogether, ample, amplitudinous, as a whole, astronomical, at large, at liberty, awesome, beamy, beneficent, big, bighearted, boundless, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, burly, capacious, charitable, chiefly, chunky, colossal, considerable, corpulent, cosmic, eleemosynary, elephantine, eminently, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, free, freehanded, freehearted, galactic, gargantuan, generally, generous, gigantic, giving, good, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted, handsome, healthy, heavy, hefty, hospitable, huge, humongous, husky, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, imposingly, in a body, in general, in the main, infinite, inordinate, jumbo, kind, king-size, large-scale, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, mainly, major, mammoth, man-sized, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, munificent, muscular, numerous, obese, on the loose, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, outsize, overgrown, overweight, philanthropic, portly, princely, prodigious, profuse, prominently, rotund, sizable, sizeable, solid, spacious, staggering, stintless, stocky, stout, strapping, stupendous, sturdy, substantial, tall, thickset, tidy, titanic, tremendous, unconfined, unfettered, ungrudging, unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vast, voluminous, weighty, wide |