1. (adj) large, big
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"
2. (adj) big
significant
"graduation was a big day in his life"
3. (adj) bad, big
very intense
"a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
4. (adj) big
loud and firm
"a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
5. (adj) big, large, prominent
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"
6. (adj) big(a), heavy(a)
prodigious
"big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
7. (adj) boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising
exhibiting self-importance
"big talk"
8. (adj) big, swelled, vainglorious
feeling self-importance
"too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
9. (adj) adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup
(of animals) fully developed
"an adult animal"; "a grown woman"
10. (adj) big
marked by intense physical force
"a big wind"
11. (adj) big, large, magnanimous
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"
12. (adj) big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
given or giving freely
"was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
13. (adverb) big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
"was big with child"; "was great with child"
14. (adverb) big
extremely well
"his performance went over big"
15. (adverb) boastfully, vauntingly, big, large
in a boastful manner
"he talked big all evening"
16. (adverb) big
on a grand scale
"think big"
17. (adverb) big
in a major way
"the play failed big at the box office"
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Definition of 'BIG' 
