enormous

Word family  noun enormity adjective enormous adverb enormously

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++e·nor·mous /ɪˈnɔːməs $ -ɔːr-/ ●●● S2 W3 AWL adjective  LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTvery big in size or in amount 〔尺寸、数量〕巨大的，庞大的 SYN huge an enormous bunch of flowers 巨大的花束 an enormous amount of money 巨款 The team made an enormous effort. 该队付出了巨大的努力。► see thesaurus at bign GrammarEnormous is not used with ‘very’. You say: Their garden is absolutely enormous. ✗Don’t say: Their garden is very enormous.

Examples from the Corpus

enormous• Their house is enormous.• In the tenth century the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.• The conceptual problems of such a model are enormous.• The properties of meteorites tell us an enormous amount about the properties of asteroids.• He has an enormous amount of work to finish before Friday.• The River was an enormous and immediate popular and critical success.• The passive smoking issue holds enormous fears for the tobacco industry.• Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.• It gives you enormous mood swings, which nobody told me about.• Talk is of enormous relevance in understanding status and in developing your own powers of influence.enormous amount of• If international law would recognize the legitimacy of their claims to sovereignty, an enormous amount of carnage could be avoided.• Despite an enormous amount of effort it was not until the 1950s that diamonds were successfully synthesised.• He was a grim man, consumed with a sense of mission and possessed of an enormous amount of energy.• The whole system requires enormous amounts of energy.• It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together, and cost an enormous amount of money.• It is also one on which an enormous amount of research remains to be done.• An enormous amount of time is represented by these rocks and unconformities, almost a third of the entire history of Earth.• I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it.Origin enormous (1500-1600) Latin enormis “out of the ordinary”, from norma “rule”

e·nor·mous adjective →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable  

big very or in in size Corpus amount

enormous
e‧nor‧mous S2 W3 AC /ɪˈnɔːməs $ -ɔːr-/ adjectivevery big in size or in amount
   SYN  huge:
    an enormous bunch of flowers
    an enormous amount of money
    The team made an enormous effort.
     

THESAURUS

■ very big
   ▪ huge/massive/enormous extremely big: The table was enormous. | a huge explosion | Their house is huge. | There is a huge amount of work to be done. | There has been a massive increase in oil prices. | The company is massive, operating in 150 countries. | A massive fire destroyed more than thirty homes. | He’s been under an enormous amount of stress recently. | The changes will have an enormous impact.
   ▪ great [only before noun] very big – used especially to describe the level or number of something: He achieved great success in America. | The college offers a great number of courses. | a great advantage
   ▪ vast extremely big – used about areas, distances, numbers, or amounts: vast areas of rainforest | A vast number of tourists visit the island every year.
   ▪ gigantic extremely big and much bigger than other things of the same type: Gigantic waves crashed onto the beach.
   ▪ colossal extremely big – used about amounts or objects: James ran up a colossal phone bill. | a colossal statue of Napoleon
   ▪ tremendous having an extremely big effect: There have been some tremendous changes. | My new job will be a tremendous challenge. | The children were making a tremendous amount of noise.

🔑 enor·mous AW BrE /ɪˈnɔːməs/ 🔊NAmE /ɪˈnɔːrməs/ 🔊 adjectiveextremely large 巨大的；庞大的；极大的 SYN huge, immense ◆an enormous house/dog巨大的房子；大狗◆an enormous amount of time大量的时间◆enormous interest浓厚的兴趣◆The problems facing the President are enormous. 总统面临的问题是巨大的。🔊🔊