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monumental, Brobdingnagian, titanic, stupendous, elephantine,
leviathan, mountainous, vast, Colloq jumbo, whopping: The red
spot on Jupiter is so huge it could swallow the earth several
times over.
hulk n. 1 shipwreck, wreck, derelict, shell, skeleton: The rusting
hulk of the once-proud ship is tied up at the dock. 2 oaf,
clod, lout, ox, Slang US galoot or galloot, klutz: Don't tell
me that hulk of a man painted these delicate miniatures!
hulking adj. clumsy, awkward, ungainly, lubberly, oafish, loutish;
unwieldy, cumbersome, bulky, ponderous, massive, ungraceful,
inelegant: Their great hulking son could no longer fit into his
clothes. That hulking monolith of an office building dominates
the entire neighbourhood.
hull n. 1 framework, skeleton, frame, structure, body: The hull of
the ship completed, we added the superstructure. 2 shell, pod,
case, husk, skin, peel, rind, US shuck: Squirrels carefully
nibble through the hull of the nut to get at the kernel inside.
--v. 3 shell, peel, skin, husk, US shuck: We hulled all the
nuts and they are now ready for the fruit cake.
hum v. 1 buzz, drone, thrum, murmur, whirr, purr, vibrate,
Technical bombinate or bombilate: I want to smell the wild
flowers and hear the bees hum once again. 2 bustle, stir, be
active, move briskly, Colloq tick (over): Within three months
of completion, the new plant was humming. 3 intone: I said,
'Do you know your rock guitar is keeping me awake?', and he
replied, 'No, man, but if you hum it I'll try to play it.'
--n. 4 buzz, buzzing, drone, droning, thrum, thrumming, murmur,
murmuring, murmuration, whirr, whirring, purr, purring,
vibration: From the other room came the hum of conversation.
human adj. 1 mortal, anthropoid, hominoid, android; hominid; Possibly
offensive manlike: The aliens from the spaceship had few human
characteristics. It is human nature to think. 2 sensitive,
defenceless, weak, fallible, vulnerable: She is human, too, and
can be easily hurt. 3 kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate,
charitable, compassionate, merciful, benign, benignant, tender,
gentle, forgiving, lenient, benevolent, beneficent, generous,