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enormous (adjective), more enormous, most enormous
1. Far exceeding the usual size, amount, degree, etc.; extraordinarily large or extensive; immense: The manager decided not to undertake an expansion of the grocery store because of the enormous costs that would have to be made.
2. Etymology: from Latin where the norm- root appeared after the prefix e- (a variant of ex-), meaning "out of", resulting in enormis, literally "abnormal, irregular".
2. Etymology: from Latin where the norm- root appeared after the prefix e- (a variant of ex-), meaning "out of", resulting in enormis, literally "abnormal, irregular".
The term acquired the specific sense of departing from the "norm" by being much larger in size than usual; that is, "huge" which is now the most common meaning of the English descendant of enormous.
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(Greek > Latin: gigantic, enormous, huge)
(Greek > Latin: any person or something of enormous size or power)
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“enormous”
ginormous (jigh NOR muhs); gigantic + enormous
Huge, humongous, or extremely large; enormous.
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