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Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. [1913 Webster] 5. Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] 6. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] "Some large jests he will make." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 8. (Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. [1913 Webster] At large. (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. Common at large. See under Common, n. Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.] To give large, To go large, To run large, or {To sail large} (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See Large, a., 8. Syn: Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample; abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive; liberal. [1913 Webster] Large \Large\, adv. Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Large \Large\, n. (Mus.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. [1913 Webster]  large adv 1: at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) 2: with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large" 3: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large] adj 1: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" [syn: large, big] [ant: little, small] 2: fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations" 3: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid] 4: generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: big, large, magnanimous] 5: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: big, large, prominent] 6: having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy" 7: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), {with child(p)}] n 1: a garment size for a large person  Large, PA Zip code(s): 15025  large [lɑːdʒ] groß; reichlich; umfangreich; weit  large [lɑːdʒ] grand  large bô bôkezû bôséges erôs felvágós felvágósan fennkölt kegyes kiterjedt kövér megtermett messzemenô nagymennyiségû nagyméretû nagyterjedelmû nagy nagyképû nagyképûen nagylelkû nagyszabású nagyszámú nagyvonalú nemes részletekbemenô szabadelvû széles széleskörû terjedelmes terjengôs tág tágas átfogó  large [lɑːdʒ] mór  large grande  large [lɑːdʒ] grandis; magnus  large [lɑːdʒ] groot  large [lɑːdʒ] grande, magno, maiúsculo  large [lɑːdʒ] большой  large [lɑːdʒ] grande  large [lɑːdʒ] stor  large [lɑːdʒ] mawr  large [larʒ] breit; weit ausgedehnt; geräumig; weit  large [larʒ] ample; bulky; extensive broad extensive; spacious; vast; wide  large [larʒ] omvangrijk; uitgebreid; veelomvattend breed; wijd slobberig; wijd breedvoerig; groot; royaal; ruim; uitgebreid; uitgestrekt; wijd  LARGE. Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty.  large ausgiebig adj large groß; weit; umfangreich; reichlich adj  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "large": Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, adipose, altogether, ample, amplitudinous, as a whole, astronomical, at large, at liberty, awesome, beamy, beneficent, big, bighearted, boundless, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, burly, capacious, charitable, chiefly, chunky, colossal, considerable, corpulent, cosmic, eleemosynary, elephantine, eminently, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, free, freehanded, freehearted, galactic, gargantuan, generally, generous, gigantic, giving, good, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted, handsome, healthy, heavy, hefty, hospitable, huge, humongous, husky, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, imposingly, in a body, in general, in the main, infinite, inordinate, jumbo, kind, king-size, large-scale, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, mainly, major, mammoth, man-sized, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, munificent, muscular, numerous, obese, on the loose, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, outsize, overgrown, overweight, philanthropic, portly, princely, prodigious, profuse, prominently, rotund, sizable, sizeable, solid, spacious, staggering, stintless, stocky, stout, strapping, stupendous, sturdy, substantial, tall, thickset, tidy, titanic, tremendous, unconfined, unfettered, ungrudging, unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vast, voluminous, weighty, wide Large related |
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