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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj
Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bĭg

Definition 1:
• Of great size, large.
Example: Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: ample, huge, large, sizeable, stour, jumbo, massive, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, exceeding, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (informal, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, portentous, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute

Definition 2:
• Of great size, large.
• Fat.
Example: g***, she is big!
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: ample, huge, large, sizeable, stour, jumbo, massive, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, exceeding, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (informal, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, portentous, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge, chubby, plus-size, beer-bellied, chunky, embonpoint, fat, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, fulsome, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, heavy, heavyset, love-handled, meaty, overnourished, paunchy, pleasantly plump, plump, portly, potbellied, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, Rubenesque, sonsy, swagbellied, thick, tubby, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-upholstered
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute
Labels: informal

Definition 3:
• Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
Example: She was big with child.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: full, great, heavy, big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fertilized, gestating, gravid, have a bun in the oven, hormonal, in a family way, in the club, in the pudding club, knocked up, preg, pregs, preggers, preggie, preggo, pregnant, pupped, quick, up the duff, up the kyte, up the stick, up the stump, up the spout, with child
Labels: figuratively, sometimes

Definition 4:
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Specifically, big-breasted.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: busty, macromastic, stacked, bathykolpian, big, big-breasted, breasty, boobilicious, bosomy, buxom, chesty, curvy, full-bosomed, full-throated, mammose, racktacular, racktastic, top-heavy, well-endowed, well-stacked
Labels: informal

Definition 5:
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Having a large penis.
Example: I'm the shortest man on the team but in the gym shower everyone can see that I'm also the biggest.
Labels: informal

Definition 6:
• Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
• Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
Example: I've been lifting weights for a full year now, but I'm finally getting big.
Labels: informal

Definition 7:
• Adult; (of a child) older.
Example: Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
Example: We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
Example: She did it all on her own like a big girl.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: adult, full-grown, grown up, big, developed, grown, grown-ass, grownup, mature
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: little, young
Labels: informal

Definition 8:
• Adult; (of a child) older.
• Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: adult, full-grown, grown up, big, developed, grown, grown-ass, grownup, mature
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: little, young
Labels: informal, rare, slang, of someone's age

Definition 9:
• Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
Example: That's very big of you; thank you!
Example: I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
Labels: informal

Definition 10:
• Important or significant.
Example: What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: essential, paramount, weighty, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, extraordinary, fateful, fatefraught, fatesome, heavy, pivotal, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital
Labels: informal

Definition 11:
• Popular.
Example: That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: all the rage, in demand, well liked

Definition 12:
• Populous.
Labels: of a city

Definition 13:
• Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
Example: You are a big liar!
Example: Why are you in such a big hurry?
Labels: informal

Definition 14:
• Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
Example: big money
Example: Big Tech / Big Steel
Example: Big Science
Example: There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
Example: Why are you so enthusiastic about putting cantaloupe in your smoothie? Did Big Melon buy you off? [humorous use]
Labels: capitalized, humorous, often, sometimes, of an industry or other field

Definition 15:
• Enthusiastic (about) [with on 'someone/something'].
Example: I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: fanatical, mad, worked up, animated, ardent, avid, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], bubbly, eager, earnest, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, fanatic, fervent, fervid, feverish, gassed, geeked, gung ho, hearty, high-spirited, impassioned, juiced, keen, lit up, lively, motivated, passionate, raring, rip-roaring, souped-up, stimulated, thrilled, torrid, vehement, vibrant, vivacious, wild, wrought-up, zealous, zestful
Labels: informal
Adv
Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bĭg

Definition 1:
• In a loud manner.

Definition 2:
• In a boasting manner.
Example: He's always talking big, but he never delivers.

Definition 3:
• In a large amount or to a large extent.
Example: He won big betting on the croquet championship.
Example: Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: greatly, hugely, largely, massively, bigly

Definition 4:
• In a large amount or to a large extent.
• (modifying a preposition)
Example: I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: greatly, hugely, largely, massively, bigly
Labels: informal

Definition 5:
• On a large scale, expansively.
Example: You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Definition 6:
• Hard; with great force.
Example: He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Labels: colloquial
Noun

Definition 1:
• A biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.
Noun
Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bĭg

Definition 1:
• Someone or something that is large in stature.

Definition 2:
• One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable

Definition 3:
• An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: big shot

Definition 4:
• The big leagues, big time.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: big leagues
Labels: in-plural

Definition 5:
• An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).

Definition 6:
• The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: little
Phrase

Definition 1:
• Abbreviation of business is a game.
Labels: business, abbreviation, alt-of
Verb
Pronunciation: /bɪɡ/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bĭg

Definition 1:
• To inhabit; occupy.
Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive

Definition 2:
• To locate oneself.
Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, reflexive

Definition 3:
• To build; erect; fashion.
Example: Don't big it up.
Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive

Definition 4:
• To dwell; have a dwelling.
Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/big