whoppinginformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Big and quite big
appreciable
baronial
bigly
bloated
boxcar
bulky
expansive
heaping
hearty
heftily
hefty
higher
pumped
rambling
roomy
royal
royally
savage
sizable
the bigger the betteridiom

Examples of sizeable

sizeable
Plain good fortune had presented him with just the sort of connections he needed to match his sizeable ambitions.
When a reduction in uterine blood -ow was maintained for 7 days, fetal oxygen uptake was sustained despite a sizeable decrease in oxygen delivery.
A sizeable fraction of sisters of the male head's wife were also married and resided with their husbands under the tutelage of brothers-in-law (n=38).
During such periods, each party contains a sizeable cross-pressured minority with policy preferences that reflect those of their constituencies but differ from their party mainstream.
These were fairly sizeable properties to be held in foreign hands, and in many cases ownership dated back more than half a century.
It is inherent in the musical experience, as a sizeable literature not just in aesthetics, but in psychology and anthropology, attests.
These are necessary because the robot is a sealed pressure vessel with a sizeable power source.
At the beginning of the reform, older cohorts experience sizeable welfare losses, associated with the loss of social security payments upon retirement.
By then the rain had almost stopped and a sizeable crowd had gathered in front of the temple, some even on the front veranda.
On a sizeable majority of policy items, opinions underwent statistically significant net change.
These findings suggest that a sizeable percentage of citizens in nascent democracies respond strategically to 'wasted-vote' opportunities.
Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and a domestic servant.
First, how does one effectively visualize, interact with, and comprehend the sizeable volume of information that is generated?
They study how sizeable and/or long-lasting periods of fiscal budget changes alter the effects that fiscal policy instruments have on private consumption.
The model produces reasonable volatilities for both the risk-free and risky rates but fails to produce a sizeable equity premium.
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