Humongous
adjective
Extremely large; enormous.
He has a humongous collection of comic books.
Often appears as...
- humongous problem
- humongous amount
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Extremely large; enormous.
He has a humongous collection of comic books.
Often appears as...
- humongous problem
- humongous amount
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Speech
Best used in casual conversations or creative writing, not in formal settings.
The party had a humongous cake that took hours to finish.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Size
Use 'humongous' to stress the unusually large size of something to the listener.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the humongous statue.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Use
Recognize 'humongous' as a colloquial term mostly used in North America.
They have a humongous house with a basketball court inside!
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Speech
Best used in casual conversations or creative writing, not in formal settings.
The party had a humongous cake that took hours to finish.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Size
Use 'humongous' to stress the unusually large size of something to the listener.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the humongous statue.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Use
Recognize 'humongous' as a colloquial term mostly used in North America.
They have a humongous house with a basketball court inside!
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Speech
Best used in casual conversations or creative writing, not in formal settings.
The party had a humongous cake that took hours to finish.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasize Size
Use 'humongous' to stress the unusually large size of something to the listener.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the humongous statue.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Use
Recognize 'humongous' as a colloquial term mostly used in North America.
They have a humongous house with a basketball court inside!
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Sebastian Deterding:...
The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair,
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John Graham-Cumming: The...
because rather than having a tiny chip in front of you, you've got to look at this humongous thing and say, "Ah, I see the memory operating, I see the CPU operating, I hear it operating. I probably smell it operating." But in between that we're going to do a simulation. Babbage himself wrote, he said, as soon as the analytical engine exists,
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What your designs say...
design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair what tradition is important because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this and where there is something as conspicuous consumption where it is okay and normally it is spend a humongous amount
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The greatest machine...
simulation of that machine and the last part is to physically build it at the science when it's built you'll finally be able to understand how a computer works because we're having a tiny chip in front of you you better look at this humongous thing and say ah I see the
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My 5 lives as an artist...
and I saw a billboard painter. And these guys paint humongous paintings, and they look really good. And I wondered how they did it from so close. So, one day I had the opportunity to meet one of these guys, and I said, "How do you paint like that? Who taught you?"
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Rachel Sussman: The...
killing certain species of trees in the forest. It's also more benignly known as the honey mushroom or the "humongous fungus" because it happens to be one of the world's largest organisms as well. So with the help of some biologists studying the fungus,
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Tracking Plastic Sea to...
diver david and goliath with a humongous school of thousands of jacks what had been a desert was now a kaleidoscope of life and color the Sharks were back the jacks the groupers we saw it go from degraded to pristine
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How to build a greener,...
happening and leading to what I call externalities the third-party cost of doing business as usual and the size of corporate externalities is absolutely humongous we are talking about trillions
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New Discovery: Blood-Red...
underground caves that could easily Harbor life similar to the sulfur cave worms it's a nice it's just a humungous amount of worms they finds all sorts of exciting things just goes into places
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How we teach computers...
and the modern CPUs and GPUs to train such a humongous model, the convolutional neural network blossomed in a way that no one expected. It became the winning architecture
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Sebastian Deterding:...
The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair,
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John Graham-Cumming: The...
because rather than having a tiny chip in front of you, you've got to look at this humongous thing and say, "Ah, I see the memory operating, I see the CPU operating, I hear it operating. I probably smell it operating." But in between that we're going to do a simulation. Babbage himself wrote, he said, as soon as the analytical engine exists,
Video examples
What your designs say...
design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair what tradition is important because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this and where there is something as conspicuous consumption where it is okay and normally it is spend a humongous amount
Video examples
The greatest machine...
simulation of that machine and the last part is to physically build it at the science when it's built you'll finally be able to understand how a computer works because we're having a tiny chip in front of you you better look at this humongous thing and say ah I see the
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My 5 lives as an artist...
and I saw a billboard painter. And these guys paint humongous paintings, and they look really good. And I wondered how they did it from so close. So, one day I had the opportunity to meet one of these guys, and I said, "How do you paint like that? Who taught you?"
Video examples
Rachel Sussman: The...
killing certain species of trees in the forest. It's also more benignly known as the honey mushroom or the "humongous fungus" because it happens to be one of the world's largest organisms as well. So with the help of some biologists studying the fungus,
Video examples
Tracking Plastic Sea to...
diver david and goliath with a humongous school of thousands of jacks what had been a desert was now a kaleidoscope of life and color the Sharks were back the jacks the groupers we saw it go from degraded to pristine
Video examples
How to build a greener,...
happening and leading to what I call externalities the third-party cost of doing business as usual and the size of corporate externalities is absolutely humongous we are talking about trillions
Video examples
New Discovery: Blood-Red...
underground caves that could easily Harbor life similar to the sulfur cave worms it's a nice it's just a humungous amount of worms they finds all sorts of exciting things just goes into places
Video examples
How we teach computers...
and the modern CPUs and GPUs to train such a humongous model, the convolutional neural network blossomed in a way that no one expected. It became the winning architecture
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.
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Gail Collins
American Journalist
The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
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Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
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Gayle Forman
American Author
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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Sowcar Janaki
Indian Actress
I may not have made humongous sum of money through acting, but I have enough to lead a stress free life.
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Johnny Gargano
American Wrestler
I'm a humungous Browns fan. My 30th birthday was actually at the Browns' stadium.
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Zareen Khan
Indian Actress
Although TikTok is a Chinese app, it had a humungous Indian user base.
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Taboo
American Musician
Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.
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Thomas Lennon
American Actor
Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
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Cardi B
American Musician
My personality is humongous.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.
Quote examples
Gail Collins
American Journalist
The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
Quote examples
Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
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Gayle Forman
American Author
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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Sowcar Janaki
Indian Actress
I may not have made humongous sum of money through acting, but I have enough to lead a stress free life.
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Johnny Gargano
American Wrestler
I'm a humungous Browns fan. My 30th birthday was actually at the Browns' stadium.
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Zareen Khan
Indian Actress
Although TikTok is a Chinese app, it had a humungous Indian user base.
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Taboo
American Musician
Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.
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Thomas Lennon
American Actor
Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
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Cardi B
American Musician
My personality is humongous.
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