Thesaurus:size

Thesaurus

size

English

Noun

Sense: the dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is

Synonyms

• size
• bigness
• bulk
• largeness
• magnitude
• scale

Hyponyms

Smallness

• minuteness
• smallness
• tininess

Largeness

• enormity (in an often-proscribed sense thereof)
• gargantuanness
• ginormousness (informal, humorous)
• ginormity (informal, humorous)
• hugeness
• largeness
• massiveness

Classes

• physical property    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

Adjectives describing size

Very big

• big-ass
• big old
• gigantic    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gigantesque
• ginormous
• behemothic
• bulky
• colossal
• enormous
• gargantuan
• giant    [⇒ thesaurus]
• great
• great big
• hulking
• huge
• mammoth
• mastodonic
• monstrous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mountainous
• large    [⇒ thesaurus]
• motivated
• outsized
• oversize
• oversized
• sizable
• sizeable
• staggering
• stupendous
• supersized
• titanic
• tremendous
• vast
• elephantine
• immense
• pantagruelian
• Brobdingnagian
• ginormous (colloquial or slang)
• humongous (slang)
• humungous (slang)
• massive (colloquial)

Large

• large    [⇒ thesaurus]

Big

• big    [⇒ thesaurus]

Small

• little
• little old (and many variations thereof)
• small    [⇒ thesaurus]

Tiny

• tiny    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bitty
• diminutive
• dinky
• lilliputian
• micro
• microscopic
• mini
• miniature
• minuscule
• minute
• nano (prefix)
• slight
• undersized
• puny
• petty
• infinitesimal
• negligible

The nature of size

• it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
• size matters

Further reading

• “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “size” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.