writ large
/ɹɪt ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
On a large scale; magnified.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Since then his character had been ripened by a various experience, and also by much knowledge which he had set himself deliberately to gain. But the man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary."
- "Yet it seems to me indeed at times that all this present commercial civilisation is no more than my poor uncle's career writ large, a swelling, thinning bubble of assurances; that its arithmetic is just as unsound, its dividends as ill-advised, its ultimate aim as vague and forgotten; […]"
- "Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
- "And, of course, none of this solves the basic problem that aggregate variables will not typically behave as individual-level variables writ large."
- ""You don't want to live down there!" everybody said, with disapprobation writ large upon their faces. "Why, it is said there are places where a man's life isn't worth tu'pence.""
- "Meantime the old salt ("ex-coasting skipper" was writ large all over his person) had hobbled up alongside in his bumpy, shiny boots."
Etymology
From writ (“(archaic) written”) + large, from the poem “On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament” in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions (1673) by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674): “New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large”; Milton was using the phrase in the sense “written more completely”.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪt ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ɹɪt ˈlɑːd͡ʒ/