huge
/hjud͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.06 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very large.
Example Sentences
- "“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”"
- "The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]."
- "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages."
- "Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights."
- "After the children went to bed, the couple got into a huge argument."
- "The band's next album is going to be huge."
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hjud͡ʒ/
- British English: /hjuːd͡ʒ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
huger (comparative)
more huge (comparative)
hugest (superlative)
most huge (superlative)
yuge (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
yooge (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
hudge (alternative, obsolete)