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Synonyms for massive
ˈmæs ɪvmas·sive
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Wiktionary
massiveadjective
Of or pertaining to a large mass; weighty, heavy, or bulky.
A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.
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heavy, weighty, hefty, bulky, substantialAntonyms:
insubstantial, lightmassiveadjective
Much larger than normal.
Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.
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enormous, gigantic, great, gargantuan, huge, mahoosive, titanic, colossal, giantAntonyms:
minuscule, dwarf, tiny, little, microscopic, pint-sized, midget, weemassiveadjective
Of great significance or import; overwhelming.
The enlightenment comprises massive shifts in many areas of Western thought.
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overwhelming, significant, weighty, meaningful, consequentialAntonyms:
inconsequential, trivial, insignificant, unimportant, piddling, triflingmassiveadjective
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stupendous, awesome, super, excellentAntonyms:
disappointing, crappy, stale, lamemassiveadjective
Antonyms:
massless
English Synonyms and Antonyms
massive
Large denotes extension in more than one direction, and beyond the average of the class to which the object belongs; we speak of a large surface or a large solid, but of a long line; a large field, a large room, a large apple, etc. A large man is a man of more than ordinary size; a great man is a man of remarkable mental power. Big is a more emphatic word than large, but of less dignity. We do not say that George Washington was a big man.
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abundant, ample, big, broad, bulky, capacious, coarse, colossal, commodious, considerable, enormous, extensive, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, long, spacious, vast, wideAntonyms:
brief, diminutive, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, limited, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scanty, short, slender, slight, small, tiny, trifling, trivial
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Princeton's WordNet
massive, monolithic, monumentaladjective
imposing in size or bulk or solidity
"massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale"
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monolithic, monumentalmassiveadjective
being the same substance throughout
"massive silver"
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monolithic, monumentalmassiveadjective
imposing in scale or scope or degree or power
"massive retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices"; "massive changes"
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monolithic, monumentalmassiveadjective
consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter
"Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets"
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monolithic, monumental
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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List of paraphrases for "massive":
mass, huge, large-scale, enormous, massif, tremendous, immense, large, vast, extensive, gigantic, great, widespread, colossal, considerable, major, substantial, overwhelming, forklift, bulk, big, mass-scale, wide, formidable, broad, heavy, mammoth, giant
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#209 | great | |
#264 | long | |
#330 | big | |
#462 | large | |
#638 | major | |
#917 | wide | |
#1133 | huge | |
#1209 | super | |
#1353 | excellent | |
#1406 | significant | |
#1450 | grand | |
#2009 | mass | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#2159 | solid | |
#3482 | extensive | |
#3516 | broad | |
#3754 | massive | |
#3977 | bulk | |
#4140 | giant | |
#4434 | substantial | |
#4491 | awesome | |
#5438 | vast | |
#5953 | considerable | |
#7810 | mighty | |
#8121 | enormous | |
#8204 | meaningful | |
#8689 | widespread | |
#8774 | tremendous | |
#10335 | spacious | |
#11452 | overwhelming | |
#12717 | abundant | |
#13124 | titanic | |
#13357 | ample | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#15908 | immense | |
#16022 | consequential | |
#16552 | mammoth | |
#16667 | gigantic | |
#22561 | formidable | |
#23873 | bulky | |
#23888 | monumental | |
#26207 | forklift | |
#27383 | colossal | |
#27828 | hefty | |
#30712 | monolithic | |
#37890 | stupendous | |
#48375 | weighty | |
#55828 | massif | |
#67570 | gargantuan | |
#108253 | capacious | |
#140430 | commodious |
How to use massive in a sentence?
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story, i think it's a massive, massive story... I think it's going to be the biggest story.
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
What we found was very interesting -- we found that Bald's eyesalve is incredibly potent as an anti-Staphylococcal antibiotic in this context, we were going from a mature, established population of a few billion cells, all stuck together in this highly protected biofilm coat, to really just a few thousand cells left alive. This is a massive, massive killing ability.
We were going from a mature, established population of a few billion cells, all stuck together in this highly protected biofilm coat, to really just a few thousand cells left alive. This is a massive, massive killing ability.
Translations for massive
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- massiewe, massiefAfrikaans
- هائلArabic
- massiuCatalan, Valencian
- masivníCzech
- massivGerman
- mashavaEsperanto
- masivoSpanish
- عظیمPersian
- massifFrench
- ollmhórIrish
- hatalmasHungarian
- massiccioItalian
- מַסִיבִיHebrew
- 大規模Japanese
- massiefDutch
- massivNorwegian
- masywnyPolish
- maciçoPortuguese
- масси́вныйRussian
- yığınsalTurkish
- 大量的Chinese
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