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Definitions of great
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more than usual; " great expectations"; " great worry"
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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
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very good; " he did a bully job"; " a neat sports car"; " had a great time at the party"; " you look simply smashing"
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Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
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marked by active interest and enthusiasm; " an avid sports fan"; " a great walker"; " an eager beaver"
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Greatness.
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Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; - opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
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Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
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in an advanced stage of pregnancy; " was big with child"; " was great with child"
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relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; " a great juicy steak"; " a great multitude"; " the great auk"; " a great old oak"; " a great ocean liner"; " a great delay"
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of major significance or importance; " a great work of art"; " Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th century"
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Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; - often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great- grandfather ( a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great- grandson, etc.
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The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
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More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
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Of large size, quantity, number, or duration; big; vast; numerous; prolonged.
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( informal) very good; " a bully pulpit"; " a neat sports car"; " had a great time at the party"; " you look simply smashing"
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Large; numerous; chief; important; distinguished.
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Large: long- continued: superior: distinguished: highly gifted: noble: mighty: sublime: of high rank: chief: proud: weighty: indicating one degree more remote in the direct line of descent, as GREAT- GRANDFATHER, GREAT- GRANDSON.
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( used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; " our distinguished professor"; " an eminent scholar"; " a great statesman"
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Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
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remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; " a great crisis"; " had a great stake in the outcome"
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The whole; the gross; the lump; people of rank or distinction.
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Greatly.
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uppercase; " capital A"; " great A"; " many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
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Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
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Large; chief; weighty; eminent; high in rank or position; noble; accomplished; long continued; showing a step of relationship by blood.
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Important; mighty; eminent; distinguished; magnanimous; grand.
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Noble, or influential, people; with the.
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Pregnant; big ( with young).
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Superior; admirable; commanding; - applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
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Large or considerable in bulk, dimensions, or number; weighty; adorable; marvellous; principal; having rank or power; illustrious; eminent; of a high and noble character; expressing an extension or unusual degree of a thing; pregnant; a word used in the more remote steps of consanguinity, either ascending or descending, as great- grandfather; hard, difficult, or grievous.
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More remote by one generation; as, great- grandfather, etc.
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Large; of large amount; long- continued; weighty; chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; vast; wonderful; able; accomplished; distinguished; eminent; dignitied; magnanimous; magnificent; sublime; noble; proud; pregnant; difficult; distant by one more generation, in the ascending or descending line; pre- eminent.
Antonyms for great
degenerate, darned, minor, prole, paltry, inexpert, touching, crude, unsung, lowercase, discreditable, ordinary, restricted, determinate, unskillful, circumscribed, thin, indifferent, sensual, cursed, suboptimal, beginning, petty, mournful, mediocre, incompetent, unconcerned, inferior, repulsive, dwarf, condensed, rough, insensible, clumsy, trivial, bantam, unschooled, fiddling, blasted, sudden, abbreviated, infernal, little, miserable, least, decent, clarified, ignorant, halfhearted, disinterested, inexperienced, loath, lukewarm, acceptable, refined, unimportant, frail, momentary, confounded, excellent, abominable, petite, primitive, Abased, medium, teeny-weeny, inconsequential, sorry, half-pint, fast, pocket-size, despicable, swinish, vicious, feral, lame, Curtailed, respectable, abject, lousy, illegitimate, atrocious, lilliputian, shortish, measured, inconsiderable, shortened, ephemeral, unqualified, defined, Dang, tenuous, passable, serviceable, lumpen, minuscule, offensive, unwilling, wee, doggone, ignominious, ham-handed, base, finite, cotton-picking, cussed, incapable, wretched, sensitive, incurious, nugatory, secondary, impermanent, subhuman, bitsy, detached, insouciant, mickey mouse, puny, mini, tiny, lightweight, obscure, low-grade, slight, polished, sour, ill, pitiful, transitory, ineffective, pathetic, brief, deuced, would-be, ham-fisted, hateful, pocket, weeny, disinclined, jackleg, all-right, punk, bestial, smallish, pint-size, unprofessional, rude, danged, execrable, plebeian, lamentable, bush, little bitty, unseasoned, bounded, plain, SUBPAR., terrible, beastly, uninterested, microminiature, amateurish, teeny, horrible, rotten, minute, weightless, junior, deficient, WACK, languorous, inept, nice, dirty, contemptible, lackadaisical, piteous, amateur, untutored, infinitesimal, pitiable, fleeting, second-rate, untested, uncelebrated, middling, miniature, mean, dissatisfactory, pygmy, dinky, so-so, bitty, remote, vulgar, unwashed, subordinate, undersized, foolish, languid, teensy, brutish, brutal, slender, debased, Ungifted, sottish, weak, unfit, adequate, detestable, unenthusiastic, feathery, subsidiary, damnable, artless, lower class, ignoble, moving, short-term, fine, run-of-the-mill, small, narrow, lowborn, incidental, unpolished, heavy-handed, animalistic, satisfactory, atomic, gauzy, impassive, sordid, last, degraded, short-range, Freaking, fairish, averse, spiritless, vile, unacceptable, diminutive, ineffectual, awkward, aloof, poor, definite, O.K., nameless, featherlight, trifling, ugly, stolid, unfitted, second class, common, subnormal, outside, dwarfish, carnal, fragile, collateral, green, unrecognized, insignificant, microscopic, degrading, untrained, nonchalant, uneager, bad, nonpregnant, low-life, negligible, transient, squalid, lowly, short-lived, limited, abrupt, fair, splendid, humble, untalented, low, small fry, hesitant, no-name, brute, sucky, underweight, unknown, teensy-weensy, scanty, casual, light, toylike, dastardly, run-of-the-mine, slim, untaught, reluctant, apathetic, inefficient, raw, untried, baseborn, lascivious, darn, unfamous, new, humiliating, Noteless, knavish, substandard, unsatisfactory, small-minded, pure, frivolous, awful, accursed, shrimpy, unable, good, Ferine, proletarian, bush-league, short, crummy, unskilled, sorrowful, off, wrong, tolerable, dismal, coarse, wanting, itty-bitty, delicate.
Quotes of great
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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
– Gerard Arpey -
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
– Jason Bateman -
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
– Napoleon Bonaparte -
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
– John Corry -
We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great The warm -ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be.
– Jon Crosby -
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
– Black Elk -
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
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I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
– Robert Plant -
Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
– Lionel Richie -
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
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Great thoughts come from the heart.
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I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
– Albert Wynn
Usage examples for great
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“ Now, we have no great use for talking. ”
– The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss -
“ " Before I met my wife, I did see a great deal of Mrs. Masterson. ”
– A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. Ingram -
“ Man who alone is really great ”
– Maxim Gorki by Hans Ostwald -
“ He is in a great hurry, I think. ”
– The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau -
“ My husband, the great Mukaukas? ”
– The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers -
“ You are a great man. ”
– O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Various -
“ " There is a lady who is a great friend of mine; she doesn'twant to go; I always talk to her about it. ”
– Four Meetings by Henry James -
“ " Because I know what great trouble you are in. ”
– The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum -
“ A young man of great promise. ”
– The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. Beresford -
“ An' there's better things nor bein' a great man, efter a'. ”
– David Elginbrod by George MacDonald -
“ But about the great lady? ”
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“ Been doin' anything great ”
– The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy -
“ He had no great Father, as we have. ”
– A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham -
“ Nothing very great so far, I'm sorry to say. ”
– The Golden Silence by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson -
“ Never have I, poor woman, had such great need of this. ”
– The Nibelungenlied by Unknown -
“ He did so, for a great part of the day. ”
– The Art of the Story-Teller by Marie L. Shedlock -
“ " Yes; she did tell me this, and a great deal more. ”
– The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming -
“ She took a great fancy to you. ”
– The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray -
“ She wanted to be the wife of a great man. ”
– The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
Rhymes for great
- ate, aydt, bait, bate, cate, chait, crate, date, eight, fait, fate, fete, freight, gait, gate, grate, hait, hate, kate, late, mate, nate, pait, pate, plait, plate, prate, rait, rate, sate, skate, slate, spate, speight, state, straight, strait, streight, tait, taitt, tate, trait, wait, waite, wayt, weight;
- abate, await, belate, berate, collate, conflate, create, debate, deflate, dictate, dilate, elate, equate, est, estate, gestate, inflate, innate, irate, kuwait, lightweight, misstate, negate, oblate, ornate, postdate, predate, prorate, reflate, relate, restate, sedate, translate, tri-state, update, upstate;
- conjugate, desecrate, interstate, intrastate, overrate, overweight, procreate, reinstate, silverplate, solid-state, underrate;
- demodulate, interrelate, recriminate, remunerate;