enormous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree

   an enormous boulder

2. 2
   adj

   Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

   all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].

3. 3
   adj

   Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.

   how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.

4. 4
   adj

   Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

   The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

Etymology

From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous.