outsize
/ˈaʊtsˌaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11. ...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle."
- "Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events."
- "[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like."
- "Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English size English outsize From out- + size.