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large adj. 1 big, great, broad, stout, heavy, thickset, chunky,
stocky, heavy-set, brawny, husky, sturdy, hefty, muscular,
strapping, burly, solid, weighty, corpulent, fat, obese, rotund,
portly, adipose, beamy, overweight: Two large gentlemen came up
and offered to help me find the door. 2 big, generous,
bountiful, charitable, eleemosynary, philanthropic, open-handed,
magnanimous, munificent, unselfish, big-hearted, large-hearted,
substantial, considerable, ample, beneficent, liberal; goodly,
kind, good; Colloq tidy: We have to thank Mr Wilson for large
donations to our Christmas fund. 3 big, huge, ample, enormous,
gigantic, immense, colossal, monumental, massive, mammoth,
Brobdingnagian, gargantuan, elephantine, monstrous, staggering,
sizeable, substantial, wide, broad, capacious, extensive, Colloq
jumbo, US humongous, ginormous: The house has a large dining
room. Supertankers are the largest ships afloat.
--adv. 4 big, prominently, overwhelmingly, imposingly,
eminently, pre-eminently: The problem looms large in the
history of biology.
--n. 5 at large. a free, unfettered, at liberty, on the loose,
unconfined, unrestrained: One of the robbers is still at large.
b generally, mainly, in general, chiefly, as a whole, in a body,
altogether, in the main: The people at large support reductions
in taxes.
largely adv. chiefly, mainly, as a rule, by and large, generally, in
general, to a great extent, mostly, in great part, in great
measure, in the main, on the whole, pretty much, essentially, at
bottom, basically, fundamentally: The voters are largely in
favour of keeping the present government.
largesse n. largess, gifts, alms, grants, bonuses, endowments, presents,
contributions, donations, hand-outs; support, subvention, aid,
subsidy, charity, philanthropy, generosity, munificence, bounty,
liberality, open-handedness: The church depends on the largesse
of its members.
lark n. 1 frolic, spree, escapade, caper, fling, romp, adventure,
revel, jape, game, antic, horseplay, shenanigans, mischief,
prank, practical joke: The boys say they took the horse just as