I've been having computer issues this week... which have been driving me a little crazy. I can't say that it's totally fixed yet either.
Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.
***
Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.
Today's word is:
Big band, big cheese, big shot, bigwig... I don't think these are improved as colossal band, elephantine cheese, humongous shot, or vastwig, but you get the idea. And what about movies like The Big Chill, Little Big Man and Big Fish? Let's play, The Ample Chill, Little Large Man, Fat Fish.
Depending on how you use it, this list (which is not complete) may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.
a whale of a, adult, aggrandized, altruistic, amble, arch (as in enemy) arrogant, arty, astronomic/astronomical, awash,
awesome, awful
banging, bear-sized, benevolent, bighearted, blow one’s own
trumpet, blown-up, bluster, boast/boastful, bouffant ,bounteous/bountiful, brag/braggart/bragging,
brimming, broad, Brobdingnagian, bulky, bull, burly, buxom
capacious, capital, cardinal, central, chief, chivalrous, chock-full,
chubby, cock-a-hoop, colossal, commodious, conceited, considerable,
considerate, copious, cosmic, crow, crowded, crowd-pleasing
deep, dominant, double
earthshaking, earth-shattering, elder, elephantine,
elevated, eminent, enceinte, enlarged, enormous, epic, eventful, exaggerate, expectant,
extended, extensive
faddish, fashionable, fat, favorite, first, flamboyant, free,
freehanded, full, full-grown, full-sized
galactic, gallant, gargantuan, gravid, generous, giant, gigantic,
giving, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted, grown, grown-up
handsome, happening, haughty, heavy, heavy-duty,
heavyweight, hefty, heroic, high/highest, high-minded, high-sounding, historic,
hot, huge, hulking/hulky, humongous, husky
immense, imperious, important, imposing, in, inflated, influential,
intense
jumbo
key, king-sized
large, large-mouthed, large-scale, larger-than-life, leading,
liberal, life-sized, lofty, lordly, lusty
macro, macroscopic, magnanimous, main, major, major league, mammoth,
man-sized, massive, master, material, mature, meaningful, mod/modish, momentous,
mondo, monolithic, monumental, monster/monstrous, mountainous, much, muscular
noble, number one, numero uno,
obese, openhanded, openhearted, outsized, overbearing, overblown,
overlarge, overmastering, overriding, oversized, overweight
packed, paramount, plump/plumping, plush, pompous, ponderous,
pop, potent, powerful, predominant,
preeminent, premier, primal, primary, prime, principle, prodigious, prominent, presumptuous,
pretentious, princely, prodigious, proud, puffy,
queen-sized
rangy, red-hot, rich, robust, roomy,
self-aggrandizing, serious, significant, sizable, sovereign,
spacious, stout, strapping, strong, stuffed, stupendous, substantial, super, super
colossal, supreme, swelled
tall, thumping, thundering, titanic, tidy, too large, toot
one’s own horn, tremendous, tubby,
unselfish
vainglorious, valuable, vast, vaunt, vogue/voguish, volumed,
voluminous,
walloping, weighty, whacking, whopper/whopping, wide,
wide-ranging
How about this bit of VAST LOVE?
Jumbo! I like that one.
ReplyDeleteHUGE wishes for a happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteUnselfish - that's an interesting alternative.
ReplyDeleteAn enormous thank you for the list! Lots of good alternatives.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the computer problems. Hope they are resolved soon!
~Jess
I like prominent! It lacks the negative connotation. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this list. Love all the alternatives!
ReplyDeleteI love these posts. I live in a small town called Bigfork. Apparently, the town's name was derived from the Salish term for the area.
ReplyDelete