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Adjective large has 8 senses
- large, big - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
Antonyms: small, little, bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck, bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy, dinky, dwarfish, elfin, elflike, gnomish, half-size, infinitesimal, minute, microscopic, least, littlest, smallest, lesser, micro, miniature, minuscule, miniscule, pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable, puny, runty, shrimpy, slender, slim, smaller, littler, smallish, small-scale, undersize, undersized
- large - fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"
Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant (indirect, via significant)
- macroscopic, macroscopical, large - large enough to be visible to the naked eye
- bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Antonym: unrhetorical (indirect, via rhetorical)
- big, large, magnanimous - generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
Antonyms: ungenerous, meanspirited (indirect, via generous)
- big, large, prominent - conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
Antonyms: inconspicuous, invisible (indirect, via conspicuous)
- large - having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
Antonyms: noncomprehensive, incomprehensive (indirect, via comprehensive)
- big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child - in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
Antonym: nonpregnant (indirect, via pregnant)
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