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man-sized

man-sized

4.6
Large or difficult enough for an adult to handle
  • adjective
  • /mæn-saɪzd/
translation icon : de tamaño adulto
  • During the festival, they showcased a man-sized statue that captured everyone's attention.

Like do you know how hard it was to find a man sized dress for joy?

Examples

  • They designed a man-sized bike that could support an adult's weight and strength.

  • The two scouts then took the man-sized transducer out of its compartment completely.

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  • Like do you know how hard it was to find a man sized dress for joy?

  • I first thought, as others did, that the children were really children, but then I realized these were normal "man-sized" people.

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  • The old couch was too small for him; he needed a man-sized version to be comfortable.

Synonyms

human-sized
vsman-sized
3 3.5

About the size of an adult person

is larger or needs adult strength and effort
bear-sized
vsman-sized
3.9

About the same size as a bear and very heavy

is smaller and suits adult strength or manageable challenge

Antonyms

2 1.1

A clothing size for people who are not large

How Big

huge
1.0
man-sized
4.6
large
1.0
medium
162 1.3
small
1.0

Surface Forms

man-sized positive

Morphology

man-sized = man (transparent) = man + sized

The adjective is formed by attaching the productive adjective-forming suffix '-sized' to 'man', yielding 'of a size appropriate for an adult man', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Man-sized is a simple combination of man ('an adult male' or 'a grown person') and sized from size ('how big something is'), so it literally means 'the size of a man'. That's why a man-sized task or object is very large or needs the strength of an adult.