Big

Etymology
From northern dialect big:, bigge:, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialect of. Compare bugge:

Adjective

 * 1) Of great size, large.
 * Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
 * 1)  Thought to have undue influence.
 * There were concerns about the ethics of big science.
 * 1) Popular.
 * That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
 * 1)  Adult.
 * Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
 * 1)  Fat.
 * Gosh, she is big!
 * 1)  Important or significant.
 * What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
 * 1)  Enthusiastic (about).
 * I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
 * 1)  Mature, conscientious, principled.
 * That's very big of you, thank you!
 * I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.

Synonyms

 * ample, huge, large, sizeable, jumbo, massive
 * adult, fully grown, grown up
 * See also Thesaurus:big

Antonyms

 * little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute
 * little, young

Noun

 * 1) An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
 * 2)  The big leagues, big time

Synonyms

 * major leagues

Verb
(up)


 * 1)  To praise or recommend

Thesaurus
adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big-league, big-name, big-time, bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull, bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, cloyed, clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential, considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned, deified, distended, domineering, double-barreled, earthshaking, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely, fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified, glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun, great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown-up, handsome, haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-powered, high-sounding, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hugely, hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important, imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large-scale, largehearted, liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man-sized, marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful, mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble-minded, nubile, numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded, overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient, patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse-proud, replete, roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied, self-important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck-up, stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen, tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage, voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world-shaking