These adjectives describe what is extraordinarily large.
- Enormous suggests a marked excess beyond the norm in size, amount, or degree: an enormous boulder.
- Immense refers to boundless or immeasurable size or extent: immense pleasure.
- Huge especially implies greatness of size or capacity: a huge success.
- Gigantic refers to size likened to that of a giant: a gigantic redwood tree.
- Colossal suggests a hugeness that elicits awe or taxes belief: a colossal ancient temple.
- Mammoth is applied to something of unwieldy hugeness: "mammoth stone figures in . . . buckled eighteenth-century pumps, the very soles of which seem mountainously tall" (Cynthia Ozick).
- Tremendous suggests awe-inspiring or fearsome size: ate a tremendous meal.
- Stupendous implies size that astounds or defies description: "The whole thing was a stupendous, incomprehensible farce" (W. Somerset Maugham).
- Gargantuan especially stresses greatness of capacity, as for food or pleasure: a gargantuan appetite.
- Vast refers to greatness of extent, size, area, or scope: "Of creatures, how few vast as the whale" (Herman Melville).
... Am-Heritage, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/enormous
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