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Larger

adjective

1.

Large or big relative to something else. Synonym: bigger.

Large

adjective

(compar. larger; superl. largest)

1.

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent. Synonym: big. "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" Antonyms: little, small.

2.

Fairly large or important in effect; influential.

3.

Ostentatiously lofty in style. Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid. "Tumid political prose"

4.

Generous and understanding and tolerant. Synonyms: big, magnanimous. "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. Synonyms: big, prominent. "Big man on campus" , "He's very large in financial circles" , "A prominent citizen"

6.

Having broad power and range and scope. "A large effect" , "A large sympathy"

7.

In an advanced stage of pregnancy. Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child. "Was great with child"

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"Larger" Quotes from Famous Books

... be grateful without niggardliness for the gift of his verse. On the larger canvas of his prose we find a vision more abundant, more varied, more touched with humour. But his poems are the genuine confessions of a soul, the meditations of a man of genius, brooding not without bitterness but with pity on the paths that lead to the grave, and ...

— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd

... Avoiding the larger rooms, which were dark and made fast for the night, Monsieur the Marquis, with his flambeau-bearer going on before, went up the staircase to a door in a corridor. This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. ...

— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... told me, the Shawanoes have a larger canoe hidden somewhere along the bank. It has not yet appeared among these sad troubles, but it must have a part to play, and I fear it will be used to carry the warriors to the other side that they may hurry my friends on their ...

— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis

... the reflection of her intelligence: her body was molded by her intelligence: without her intelligence she would have passed unnoticed: and no doubt she would even have been thought plain by most people. Her intelligence delighted Christophe. He thought it larger and more free than it was: he could not yet know how deceptive it was. He longed ardently to confide in her and to impart his ideas to her. He had never found anybody to take an interest in his dreams: he was turned in upon, himself: what joy then ...

— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... been once, and still there was a gleam of light in the eyes that told of past merriment, and almost promised mirth to come, if only some great evil might be cured. Her long flaxen curls still hung down her face, but they were larger, and, as Fenwick thought, more tawdry than of yore; and her cheeks were thin, and her eyes were hollow; and then there had come across her mouth that look of boldness which the use of bad, sharp words, half-wicked and half-witty, will always give. ...

— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope

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