as in gigantic
of a building or room
resembling a cave in spaciousness; very significant in size
We toured the cavernous airplane hangar. The dance was held in a cavernous hall. a cavernous auditorium
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Recent Examples of cavernous
Inside a cavernous industrial building on the outskirts of Zhuhai, in southern China, there's a factory of the future.
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Anna Coren, CBS News, 12 May 2026
More buttons fold the seats flat, either individually or all together, creating a cavernous lay-flat cargo area.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
By way of comparison, the 1979 Astros, playing in the cavernous Astrodome, hit 55.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The service Service is warm and efficient, with a concierge team available to set you up with guides to take you around Istanbul’s many great sites, including the Grand Bazaar, a cavernous and overwhelming shopping experience that benefits greatly from some inside knowledge.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
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Anna Coren, CBS News, 12 May 2026
More buttons fold the seats flat, either individually or all together, creating a cavernous lay-flat cargo area.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
By way of comparison, the 1979 Astros, playing in the cavernous Astrodome, hit 55.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The service Service is warm and efficient, with a concierge team available to set you up with guides to take you around Istanbul’s many great sites, including the Grand Bazaar, a cavernous and overwhelming shopping experience that benefits greatly from some inside knowledge.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavernous
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Its gigantic coal infrastructure, coal-to-chemical plants, and processing facilities could readily be adapted to handle the load.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 May 2026
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That company-wide deficit in profitability could potentially raises questions about it will fund its gigantic requirement for the capex required to deliver on its promise make its AI side a supreme winner.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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Ciber ’s team work quickly under netting to mount a huge Browning heavy machine gun onto tank tracks.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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The eighth-inning bomb was huge, too.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
30 May 2026
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Biomimicry often fails when the design is too large, Hassanalian says, but is most efficient on the microscale.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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Raising the competition in chatbot technology, this is largest overhaul of Google search in almost three decades.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Right-back was a massive headache, with midfielders Dominik Szoboszlai and Jones both played out of position there.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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In the end, efforts to cool the crippled tank by spraying water on it were believed to have helped slow down the reaction enough to prevent an explosion or massive rupture in the tank that could have sent toxic chemicals flowing into waterways and the ocean.—
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2026
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Farmers are now hoping federal assistance will help offset some of the enormous financial losses.—
Madeleine Wright,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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While technology will be the centerpiece, the facility — tentatively named the Connecticut Center for Applied AI — won’t have enormous banks of computer servers or the high-capacity energy and cooling systems that are trademarks of data centers.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
28 May 2026
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Thus whoever wins Chicago’s mayoral election next year almost certainly will be dealing with Pritzker as governor for the vast majority of their term.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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Built from the bones of a 12th-century hostelry, its hub is a vast, glamorous lounge bar complete with mixologists shaking modern-day mocktails under the ancient beams.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
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Spica's light represents not one, but two colossal stars, which orbit each other once every four days.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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Her style can seem simple and understated on paper or on a screen, but in person, the portraits are colossal, sometimes up to 10 feet tall.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
24 May 2026
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The dynamic came up again after a visit to Ultium Cells, a mammoth factory in Warren, Ohio, where General Motors and LG Energy Solution are building batteries for electric vehicles.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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Parts of SpaceX, as the company looks to raise as much as a mammoth $80 billion in its IPO, remain close to the chest.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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“Cavernous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavernous. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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