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largish

largish

2 3.5
Fairly big but not huge
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɑrdʒɪʃ/
  • Informal
translation icon : grande
  • We're in one largish room, books all over.

A fairly largish dose for his size.

Examples

  • The antique chairs were grouped around a largish dinner table in a room whose walls were decorated with a mural mélange.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The company is now ramping up production of the Model S, a largish all-aluminum luxury car that the California startup began selling over the summer.

    Blog text (26)

  • A fairly largish dose for his size.

    Two Hot Takes

  • A largish bird was rummaging through a trash can.

    Blog text (6)

  • If you are healthy, active, have a lot of time on your hands for gardening, and have room for a largish garden with good soil, you could do it.

    Blog text (6)

  • My neighborhood, called Burns Park, is a lower-upper-middle-class one, comprised of largish houses on quiet, shaded streets, inhabited largely by the professoriat of the University of Michigan, its apparatchiks, and like-minded professionals.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The house has a largish garden where we spend most of our summer afternoons.

  • For a city apartment, this flat is surprisingly largish, with plenty of space for furniture.

  • He wore a coat that was a bit largish on him, but it kept him warm during the winter.

Synonyms

sizable
vslargish
  • US
64 3.7

Quite large in size or amount

is narrower, focusing on degree of largeness rather than amount
biggish
vslargish
  • Informal
1 1.9

A bit larger than usual but not very large

has identical meaning but is expressed in a different word form

Antonyms

tiny
∞ 1.0

So small it can fit in your hand

smallish
10 2.0

A little smaller than usual

How Big

huge
∞ 1.0
large
∞ 1.0
largish
  • Informal
2 3.5
medium
162 1.3
small
2 1.1
tiny
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

largish positive

Morphology

largish = large (transparent) = large + ish

Formed by the productive suffix '-ish' added to 'large' to mean 'somewhat large', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Largish is made from large and the small ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'kind of', as in reddish. So largish means 'fairly large', not very big but a bit bigger than usual.