humongous
adjective
hu·mon·gous
hyü-ˈməŋ-gəs 
yü-,
-ˈmäŋ-
variants
or less commonly humungous
: extremely large : huge
a humongous building
humongous amounts of money
Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of humongous in a Sentence
a humongous dish of ice cream
I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch.
Recent Examples on the Web
The retirement of future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald left a humongous hole in a unit that had to be rebuilt with first- and second-year players.
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Twelve helicopters are filling humongous water buckets hanging from cables and sucking seawater up through snorkels.
—Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
Filtered across the main level are a humongous formal living room with a fireplace and coffered ceiling, a formal dining room, a billiards room with a wet bar, and an office space.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
What's especially interesting is there are points where the carnivore and herbivore tracks cross over, which means these humongous creatures may have interacted in some way at this site.
—New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2025
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Twelve helicopters are filling humongous water buckets hanging from cables and sucking seawater up through snorkels.
—Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
Filtered across the main level are a humongous formal living room with a fireplace and coffered ceiling, a formal dining room, a billiards room with a wet bar, and an office space.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
What's especially interesting is there are points where the carnivore and herbivore tracks cross over, which means these humongous creatures may have interacted in some way at this site.
—New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humongous. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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