huge

Huge is an English adjective meaning very large in size, extent, or degree. It can describe physical objects, quantities, or abstract concepts, and is often used to convey emphasis, significance, or surprise.

Usage is versatile and subjective. A huge building, a huge crowd, a huge amount of money, or a huge change are all common usages. It usually modifies nouns; the adverb form is hugely, as in "hugely successful." In formal writing, alternatives such as enormous, vast, or massive may be preferred.

Common collocations include huge impact, huge difference, huge potential, huge burden, and huge expectations. The word is more colloquial than enormous and is frequent in media and everyday speech; when precision is required, numeric or technical terms are better.

Synonyms include enormous, immense, vast, gigantic, colossal, and massive; antonyms include small, tiny, and minuscule. The degree of "huge" depends on context—what is huge for a family may be ordinary for a corporation, and what is huge in one domain may be routine in another.

See also: enormous; gigantic; massive; vast.