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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

enorme

Pronunciation / Transliteration: iˈnɔɾ.mi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Humongous/hjuːˈmʌŋ.ɡəs/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles compraram uma casa enorme."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Extremely large; enormous, colossal, or gigantic in scale or degree.

    "They bought a humongous house with six bedrooms and a massive backyard."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Originating in American slang during the mid-20th century around 1965-1970, humongous is likely a blend of the adjectives huge and monstrous. It combines the extreme scale of monstrous with the direct sizing of huge, eventually gaining widespread acceptance in informal and standard English.

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