enormous

modif.

enormous implies an exceeding by far what is normal in size, amount, or degree an enormous nose, enormous expenses; immense, basically implying immeasurability, suggests size beyond the regular run of measurements but does not connote abnormality in that which is very large redwoods are immense trees; huge usually suggests great mass or bulk a huge building, huge profits; gigantic, colossal, and mammoth etymologically imply a comparison with specific objects of great size (respectively, a giant, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the huge, extinct elephant) and therefore emphasize the idea of great magnitude, force, importance, etc., now often hyperbolically; tremendous, literally suggesting that which inspires awe or amazement because of its great size, is also used loosely as an intensive term