outsize
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈaʊtsaɪz/
:
sobredimensionado
- Commissioners, like coaches, politicians, and CEOs, get outsize credit for successes—and probably get hit too hard for failures.
Yeah, doesn't reflect, in my opinion, the outsize image of your brand.
- Yeah, doesn't reflect, in my opinion, the outsize image of your brand.
- People are not all the same, obviously, like a a big figure, you know, CEO with a larger than life personality will have an outsize effect, right.
Examples
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But it is this idea that somehow there's one intervention that your money can do that somehow is going to have an outsize effect on people's lives.
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The "VC model" is built on outsize returns from the success of companies.
Academic text (2012) -
So India has a way of growing things, growing to outsize proportions.
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The potential, not the guarantee, but the potential for outsize gains as a demand for silver increases more rapidly than the industry can supply it.
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Physically, at least, he was a giant, 6-foot-6 with outsize feet and hands so large he was unable to manage a typewriter's keyboard.
Academic text (2016) -
As German budgets are squeezed, there is growing resentment of the outsize German contribution to the EU's budget.
Academic text (1994) -
Big-time coaches, with their huge egos, outrageous salaries, outsize influence, and everything else that comes with them, should be shown the door.
Blog text (26) -
That's what makes them a silent army—they're the opposite of taste-makers, who are a smaller group with outsize influence.
Academic text (2013) -
The plane tree, the only landscape element, is merely an outsize version of earlier solitary trees that often appear in Greek renditions of Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion.
Academic text (1999) -
The outsize furniture took up most of the small apartment, making it feel even more cramped.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Larger than usual in size or amount
∞
1.0
Bigger than average in size, number, or amount
∞
1.0
Very large in size, amount, or degree
∞
1.0
Very large in size or number
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2.1
Very large in size, amount, or effect
721
2.1
Very large in size or amount
141
3.7
Very large in size, amount, or degree
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3.2
Very large, much bigger than normal
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3.7
Quite large in size or amount
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2.3
Larger than normal and often too big for its use
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4.1
Being large in amount and often expensive
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5.4
Very large and wide, often used for places or plans
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7.3
Very large, much bigger than usual
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3.3
Very large and much bigger than usual
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4.8
A person or thing that seems bigger and more exciting than normal
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4.6
Much larger than is usual for that kind
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1.0
A clothing size for people who are bigger than average
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3.2
Larger than the usual size for its type
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3.1
Bigger than normal because it is swollen or has been made larger
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4.7
Too big for the person or room
Very large, often said in a playful way
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outsize as an adjective comes from out- 'more than' and size 'measure', like in outside. So something described as outsize is 'much larger than normal' or bigger than you would expect.