Greatness
Greatness
#31. Greatness. -- N. greatness &c. adj.; magnitude; size &c.
(dimensions) 192; multitude &c. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity
&c. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance &c. 642.
- great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world;
mass, heap &c. (assemblage) 72; stock &c. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load,
cargo; cartload[obs], wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance
&c. (sufficiency) 639.
- principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best
part, essential part ; bulk, mass &c. (whole) 50.
- V. be great &c. adj.; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a
great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.
- enlarge &c. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.
- Adj. great; greater &c. 33; large, considerable, fair, above par; big,
huge &c. (large in size) 192; Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant &c.
(enough) 639 full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep,
high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.
- world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many &c. 102.
- goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone,
arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense,
consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark
staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.;
important &c. 642; unsurpassed &c. (supreme) 33; complete &c. 52. august,
grand, dignified, sublime, majestic &c. (repute) 873.
- vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant,
exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous,
overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible;
marvelous &c.
870.
- unlimited &c. (infinite) 105; unapproachable, unutterable,
indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression,
fabulous.
- undiminished, unabated, unreduced[obs], unrestricted.
- absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect,
finished.
- remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest; noteworthy; renowned.
- Adv. truly &c. (truth) 494[in a positive degree]; decidedly,
unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally,
radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main.
- [in a complete degree] entirely &c. (completely) 52; abundantly &c.
(sufficiently) 639; widely, far and wide.
- [in a great or high degree] greatly &c. adj.; much, muckle[obs],
well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little;
pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent,
to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so,
ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by
wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra[Lat], in the extreme,
extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely,
immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all
bounds; incalculably, infinitely.
- [in a supreme degree] preeminently, superlatively &c. (superiority)
33.
- [in a too great degree] immoderately, monstrously, preposterously,
inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion,
with a vengeance.
- [in a marked degree] particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously,
uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly,
pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly,
emphatically, kat exochin[Grk], strangely, wonderfully, amazingly,
surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully,
stupendously.
- [in an exceptional degree] peculiarly &c. (unconformity) 83.
- [in a violent degree] furiously &c. (violence) 173; severely,
desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly,
devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance[obs], a toute outrance[Fr][obs].
- [in a painful degree] painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly,
piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably,
shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
- Phr. a maximis ad minima[Lat]; " greatness knows itself" [Henry IV]; "
mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed " [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet
libere cui multum licet [Lat][Seneca]; " some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them " [Twelfth Night].