whoppinginformal

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greater than the average size or amount
bigThey live in a big house in the country.
largeA large number of people were crowded into the room.
greatThe party was a great success.
enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs.

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costing a lot of money
expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes.
dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket.
costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey.
exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enormous
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
cavernous
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
inordinately
precipitous
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
terrific
thumping
walloping
yawning
yawningly

astronomical | American Dictionary

astronomical
adjective
us/ˌæs·trəˈnɑm·ɪ·kəl/

astronomicaladjective (LARGE)

extremely large:
The costs were astronomical.

astronomicaladjective (OF OBJECTS IN SPACE)

[ not gradable ]
connected with astronomy:
astronomical observations

Examples of astronomical

astronomical
Another method of determining time relied upon astronomical observation.
One day, he noticed the persistent fall of a fine dust, and observed how it scratched some of the astronomical instruments.
Several treatises relate to technical applications of astronomy, others to methods of astronomical calculation, others again to procedures for making astronomical observations, and so on.
Many of the examples of comets he cites from astronomical sources would have been scarcely visible.
Astronomical sources of circularly polarized light and the origin of homochirality.
During each wintering, tidal measurements would be made for many months, with comprehensive meteorological and astronomical observations.
The study of cosmic dust with in-situ experiments from spacecraft provides data that are complementary to information gained by astronomical observation.
The desire of people for space was held as a check on the more astronomical numbers, although the idea was not systematically explored.
A relevant question for astrobiology is: how did all this apparatus evolve and did astronomical effects play a role?
We are developing a sequence of inquiry-based lesson plans that address astronomical phenomena people can readily see in the sky.
The bishop offers no specific astronomical explanation for the longitudinal motions of the planets.
Astronomical tuning thus offers the potential to date isotopic events to a resolution of 10-20 kyr.
In the old astronomical discourse knowledge also acquired authority according to the degree of logical certainty assigned to inferences from observations to first principles.
The resident archbishop had founded an astronomical observatory there as early as 1692, and the local seminary helped to distribute books among the peasantry.
The accuracy of astronomical observations allows proper maps to be drawn.
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