Word Meanings - MASSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock , a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock. (more

Additional info about word: MASSIVE

In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock , a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock. (more info) 1. Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy. "Massive armor." Dr. H. More.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASSIVE)

• Big
• Large
• great
• wide
• huge
• bulky
• proud
• arrogant
• pompous
• fat
• massive
• gross
• Bulky
• Huge
• unwieldy
• heavy
• large
• ample
• ponderous
• burly
• cumbrous
• gigantic
• brawny
• Plump
• Well-conditioned
• wellrounded
• chubby
• strapping
• bouncing
• fleshy
• full
• round
• portly
• Ponderous
• Weighty
• burdensome
• onerous
• Substantial
• Existing
• real
• solid
• true
• corporeal
• material
• strong
• stout
• tangible

Related words: (words related to MASSIVE)

• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• ONEROUS
  Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• BOUNCING
  1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet , the common soapwort . Harper's Mag.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.