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Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean,
Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, appreciable, astronomic, astronomical, august, awash, awesome, baggy, bordering, boundless, brimful, brimming, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, capacious,
choke-full, chunky, colossal,
commodious, comprehensive, considerable, copious, cosmic, crammed, crowded, distended, elephantine, enormous, epic, expansive, extensive,
filled, full-blown, full-grown,
full-scale, full, full to bursting,
galactic, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goodly, grand, grandiose, gravid, great, handsome, heavy, hefty,
heroic, huge, hulking, hulky, humongous, husky,
immeasurable, immense, imposing, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large-scale, large,
leviathan, limitless, macroscopic,
majestic, mammoth, man-size,
man-sized, massive, massy, mega, megalithic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, much, on
the brink, outsize, overblown, overflowing, overgrown, oversize, packed, ponderous, pregnant, prodigious, profound, replete, roomy, sizable, spacious, stellar, stuffed,
stupendous, substantial, swelling, swollen, tall, teeming, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, verging, voluminous, walloping, weighty, whacking, whopping
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big |
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abdominous, adipose, big-bellied, big-boned, bloated, bonny, bosomy, busty, buxom, chubby-cheeked, chubby, corpulent, distended, double-chinned, dumpy, endomorphic, fat, flabby, fleshy, full-bosomed, full-faced, full-figured, full, gross, obese, overfed, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy,
portly, pot-bellied, potbellied,
pudgy, puffy, roly-poly, rotund, round-bellied, round, squab, stout, swollen, top-heavy, tubby,
well-endowed, well-fed
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big |
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Herculean, beefy, bouncing, bouncy, brawny, broad-shouldered, burly, chunky, heavy-duty, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, hulky, husky, lumbering, lusty, meaty, muscly, muscular, robust, solid, square, squat, stalwart, stocky, stout,
strapping, sturdy, thewy,
thickset, well-built
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big |
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ambitious, big-league, big-time, bigwigged, capital, carrying weight,
chief, consequential, critical, crucial, distinguished, double-barreled, earthshaking, elevated,
eminent, essential, esteemed, exalted, excellent, famous, far-reaching, foremost, grandiose, great, head, high-powered, high,
illustrious, important, influential, key, leading, life-and-death, main, major-league, major, material, meaningful,
momentous, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, paramount, popular, powerful, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, radical,
renowned, salient, serious, significant, special, splendid, standout, substantial, super, superb, supereminent, superior, supreme, top, valuable, vital,
weighty, well-known, world-shaking
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big |
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VIP, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, boss, brass hat, great gun, heavyweight, lion, somebody, wheeler-dealer
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big |
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adult, elder, full-grown, grown-up, grown, marriageable,
mature, maturescent, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, older, tall
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big |
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above oneself, arty, bigheaded, boastful, bombastic, bragging, cocksure, cocky, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous, disdainful, domineering, extravagant, flamboyant, full of oneself, gassy, haughty, high-class, high-flown, high-minded,
high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high, high and mighty, highfalutin, imperious, imposing, inflated, lofty, magnified,
ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, patronizing, pompous, pretentious, proud, puffed-up, purse-proud, self-important, self-satisfied,
smug, snobbish, supercilious, swell-headed, toplofty, turgid, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain, vainglorious,
windy
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big |
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altruistic, apotheosized, beatified, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, canonized, caring, chivalrous, compassionate, considerate,
deified, dignified, elevated,
ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, fair, forgiving, free, generous, glorious,
goodly, gracious, great of heart,
greathearted, heroic, high-minded, honorable, humane, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, impartial, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly,
knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty, loving, magnanimous, magnificent, munificent,
noble-minded, noble, openhanded, princely, sainted, sanctified, shrined, sublime, throned, unbiased, unprejudiced, unselfish
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Big Brother |
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auditor, boatswain, boss, chief, comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sirdar, slave driver, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, visitor
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big business |
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balance of trade, business, business dealings, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial
relations, dealing, dealings, fair trade, free trade, industry, intercourse, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchantry, multilateral trade, reciprocal trade,
restraint of trade, small business, the business world,
the marketplace, trade, traffic,
truck, unilateral trade
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big deal |
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emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality, triflingness, triteness,
triviality, trivialness, vacuity,
vanity, vapidity
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Big Dipper |
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Antlia, Antlia Pneumatica, Apus, Aquarius, Ara, Caela Sculptoris, Caelum, Camelopardus, Cancer, Columba Noae, Corona Australis,
Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater, Crux, Dorado, Draco, Equuleus,
Gemini, Grus, Hercules,
Horologium, Hydra, Lacerta, Leo,
Leo Minor, Lepus, Libra, Little Dipper,
Lupus, Lynx, Lyra, Malus, Mensa, Microscopium, Monoceros, Musca, Norma, Northern Cross, Octans, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Phoenix, Reticulum, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Sculptor,
Scutum, Sextans, Southern Cross, Taurus,
Telescopium, Triangulum, Triangulum Australe, Tucana, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Vela, Virgo, Volans, Vulpecula, the Balance, the Bull, the Crane, the Cross, the Crow, the Cup, the Dragon, the Fly, the Foal, the Hare, the Indian, the Lion, the Lizard, the Lynx, the Lyre, the Mast, the Octant, the Rule, the Sails, the Sea Serpent, the Serpent, the Serpent Bearer, the Sextant, the Southern Crown, the Swan,
the Table, the Telescope, the Toucan, the
Twins, the Unicorn, the Virgin, the Water Bearer, the Wolf, the Wreath
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big game |
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Animalia, and fish, animal kingdom,
animal life, animality, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, beasts of venery, birds,
brute creation, cattle, domestic animals, fauna, furry creatures, game, kill, livestock, prey,
quarry, small game, stock,
the hunted, venery, victim,
wild animals, wildlife
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big gun |
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Establishment, VIP, baron, big boy, big cheese, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, brass,
brass hat, celebrity, chief,
dignitary, dignity, elder, father, figure, great gun, great man, high-muck-a-muck, important person, interests, leader, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable,
panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, ruling circle, sachem, somebody, something, the great, the top, top brass, top
people, tycoon, very important person, worthy
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big hand |
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acclaim, acclamation, applause, burst of applause, cheer, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, eclat, encore, hand, handclap, handclapping, ovation, plaudit, popularity, round of applause, thunder of applause
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big mouth |
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Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, blower, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion, effusiveness, fanfaron, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gasbag, gasconader, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, hector, hot-air artist,
long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, miles gloriosus, openness, prolixity, slush, sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility, windbag, windiness, windjammer, windy
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big name |
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Establishment, VIP, baron, big-league, big-time, big, big gun, big man, bigwig, bigwigged, brass, brass hat,
celebrity, consequential, considerable, constellation, cynosure, dignitary, dignity, double-barreled, earthshaking, elder, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, grand, great,
great man, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-powered, idol, immortal, important,
important person, interests, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, major, man of mark, master spirit, material, mogul, momentous, nabob, name, notability, notable,
panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society,
pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, self-important, significant, social lion, somebody, something, star,
substantial, superior, superstar, the great, the top, top
brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, world-shaking, worthy
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big talk |
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Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement,
amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, fancy talk,
fine talk, fish story, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, fulsomeness, garishness, gas, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, heightening, high-flown diction, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflatedness, inflation, inordinacy, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magnification, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, orotundity, ostentation,
ostentatious complexity, overemphasis, overestimation,
overkill, overstatement, platitudinous ponderosity,
polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity,
pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prodigality, profuseness, prose run mad, puffery, puffing up, rhetoric,
rhetoricalness, sensationalism, sententiousness,
showiness, stiltedness, stretching, superlative, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall story, tall talk, tortuosity,
tortuousness, touting, travesty, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity
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big talker |
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agreeable rattle, babbler, blab, blabberer, blatherer, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gabbler, gasbag,
gibble-gabbler, great talker, hot-air artist, idle
chatterer, jabberer, jay, magpie,
moulin a paroles, patterer, prater, prattler, rattle, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger
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big time |
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action, ball, big-league, big-name, big, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking, fun, fun and games, funmaking, game, good time, grand, great, great fun, heavyweight, high-powered, high old time, high time, important, laughs, lovely time, major, material, momentous, name, picnic, play,
pleasant time, self-important, significant, sport, substantial, superior, world-shaking
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big time operator |
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BMOC, activist, ball of fire, beaver, big-timer, big
cheese, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bustler, busy bee, doer, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, human dynamo, hustler, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, political activist, powerhouse, take-charge guy, wheel, wheeler-dealer, winner
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big top |
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burlesque show, carnival, circus, coochie show, fantoccini, floor show, galanty show, girly show, hootchy-kootchy show, leg show,
light show, magic show, ombres chinoises, peep show, puppet show, raree-show, rep show, repertory show, rodeo, shadow show,
sideshow, the big top, variety show, vaudeville
show
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big wheel |
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BMOC, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big-time operator, big-timer, big boy,
big cheese, big gun, big noise, big shot, bigwig, chief, court, eminence grise, five-percenter,
friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, powers that be,
pressure group, sinister influence, special-interest group,
special interests, the Establishment, very important person,
wheel, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller
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big-league |
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big-name, big-time, big, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking,
grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, major, material, momentous,
name, self-important, significant, substantial, superior, world-shaking
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go over big |
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be blooded, be successful, catch on,
click, come off, connect, farewell, give pleasure, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go to town, graduate, hit the spot, make a hit, meet with success, pass, please, prevail, prosper, qualify, succeed, take, work well, work
wonders
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talk big |
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Barnumize, aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, blow, blow off, blowhard, bombast,
build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, draw the longbow, exaggerate, go to extremes, hyperbolize, inflate, lay it on, magnify, make much of, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell,
overspeak, overstate, overstress, pile it on, pontificate, puff, shoot the shit, stretch, stretch the truth, talk highfalutin, talk in superlatives, tout, travesty, vapor
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adult, aggrandized, arrogant, artless, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big name, big time, big-league, bighearted, bombastic, bull, bumper, burly, chivalrous, condescending, consequential,
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gone, good-natured, goodly, grand, gravid, great, greathearted, gross, grown, grown up, handsome, haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, heroic, high,
high and mighty, high-flown, high-minded, high-powered, highfalutin,
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main, major, major-league, massive, material, mature, meaningful, merciful, mightily, mighty, momentous, monstrous, munificent, name, noble, noble-minded, notable, numerous, old, openhanded, overbearing, overblown, parturient, patronizing, ponderous, pot, powerful, pregnant, pretentious, princely, proud, roomy, sainted,
sanctified, self-important, significant, sizable, spacious, spanking, stout, stuck-up, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen, tall, tidy, toplofty, uppity, upstage,
vast, very, voluminous, weighty, whopping, windy, world-shaking
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