n.

1. a garment size for a large person

adj.

1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;
   big
   
   • 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
2. fairly large or important in effect; influential
   
   • played a large role in the negotiations
3. ostentatiously lofty in style;
   bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid
   
   • a man given to large talk
   • tumid political prose
4. generous and understanding and tolerant;
   big, magnanimous
   
   • 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
5. conspicuous in position or importance;
   big, prominent
   
   • a big figure in the movement
   • big man on campus
   • he's very large in financial circles
   • a prominent citizen
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;
   big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
   
   • was big with child
   • was great with child

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;
   boastfully, vauntingly, big
   
   • he talked big all evening