large
- adjective
- /lɑrdʒ/
- His speech was filled with large claims that impressed the audience.
Examples
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The words he wrote were as large as houses in a landscape.
Blog text (3) -
One was a large text file with a series of jokes; some of them were even funny.
Fiction book (1999) -
The next day, the newspaper announced my death in large letters, headlining the article with the following words:
Academic text (2007) -
First, it's slightly cheaper, and second, it has the words "Don't Panic" printed in large, friendly letters on its cover.
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Some of his ideas are useful, but by and large they represent piecemeal extensions of long-standing policies.
Academic text (2004) -
The author tends to write with a large vocabulary that can overwhelm readers.
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She has a tendency to use large metaphors to emphasize her points.
Synonyms
Exaggerated and showy in style or speech
Too big and showy in a way that tries to seem more important than it is
Acting as if you are better than other people
Using big, showy words that have little real meaning
Language that uses long, fancy words to seem important but is hard to read
Seeming important or impressive but lacking real meaning and honesty
Using long, fancy words to sound important
Using words or ideas that sound grand and showy but feel unrealistic
Speaking loudly and in a dramatic way to try to impress people
Speech or writing that uses very grand, showy language
To use very big, showy words to sound important
Speech or writing that uses big words to seem important
Having goals or ideas that are too high and unrealistic
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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The lower tube in the body that absorbs water from waste before the waste leaves the body
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When a sample gets larger, its average gets closer to the average of the whole group
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A nearby irregular galaxy visible from the southern sky that orbits the Milky Way
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A theorem that says the average of many independent random results almost certainly equals the true average
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A measure of food energy equal to the heat needed to warm 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius
A low North American plant that makes red berries people use for sauce and juice
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A yearly garden plant with large white flowers that smell sweet at night
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A North American wild flower with greenish-yellow pouch-shaped flowers and purple marks
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About stocks of big companies worth five billion dollars or more
An herb that smells nice and has large pink flowers often grown in gardens or used for tea
A plant with large green and white leaves that grows along the ground in gardens
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A tree from eastern North America with large leaves that have rough edges and light bark
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An annual plant with large coiled flower spikes that grows in the western United States and is threatened
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An evergreen tree with large glossy leaves and big white fragrant flowers
A plant that lives for several years with broad leaves and small daisy-like flowers
A tree or bush with very large leaves and creamy flowers with purple near their base
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The average of many separate random results becomes almost always close to the true average
How Pompous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Large in the sense of showy or pompous speech grew from an older idea of being 'grand' or 'big' in style. So a 'large' speech feels big and showy and may seem too proud.