huge

A2 Topic:Describing Qualities

Also spelled uge

US /hjud͡ʒ/ UK /hjuːd͡ʒ/ See IPA manual

Freq #1020

Meanings

1

adj
Extremely large in size or amount.

They live in a huge house with ten bedrooms.
2

adj
Very important, successful, or popular.

The band's next album is going to be huge.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · extremely large in size or... enormous immense vast colossal big

2 adj · very important, successful,... great

Opposites

dwarf midget minuscule small tiny

Word family

Forms hugenesshugerhugest

Derived forms hugantichugelyhugemongoushugenhugenesshugeoushugesomehugyhumongoushunormousoverhugesuperhuge

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huge difference
a very great contrast or change in effect

Adjective + noun

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High Up the Hill
High up the hill he heaved a huge hoe.

Let each /h/ begin with an easy breath. Keep heaved and huge separate, and use your usual pronunciation of huge.

Etymology

From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.

*kewk- Proto-Indo-European huge Middle English ahuge Old French *haug frk haugr Old Norse *haugaz Proto-Germanic *kowkós Proto-Indo-European

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# huge

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /hjud͡ʒ/
**IPA (UK):** /hjuːd͡ʒ/
**Frequency rank:** 1020

## Meanings
1. Extremely large in size or amount.
2. Very important, successful, or popular.

## Examples
- They live in a huge house with ten bedrooms.
- The band's next album is going to be huge.

## Antonyms
- dwarf
- midget
- minuscule
- small
- tiny

## Derived Forms
- hugantic
- hugely
- hugemongous
- hugen
- hugeness
- hugeous
- hugesome
- hugy
- humongous
- hunormous
- overhuge
- superhuge

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kewk-
- Root: huge
- Root: ahuge
- Root: *haug
- Root: haugr
- Root: *haugaz
- Root: *kowkós

## Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.

## AI Etymology
Huge comes from Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high. In current use, the main senses are “Extremely large in size or amount” and “Very important, successful, or popular”.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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