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The definition of enormous is something that is bigger than the usual size.

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An example of enormous is a pumpkin the size of a car.

See enormous in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

very much exceeding the usual size, number, or degree; of great size; huge; vast; immense
Archaic very wicked; outrageous

Origin: ME enormyouse < L enormis (see enormity) + -ous

Related Forms:

enormously adverb
enormousness noun

See enormous in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Very great in size, extent, number, or degree.
Archaic Very wicked; heinous.

Origin:

Origin: From Latin ēnormis, unusual, huge, monstrous

Origin: : ē-, ex-, ex-

Origin: + norma, norm; see gnō- in Indo-European roots

Origin: . Sense 2, from Middle English enormious

Origin: , from Latin ēnormis

Related Forms:

e·norˈmous·ly adverb

e·norˈmous·ness noun

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