massive

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more massive

Superlative

most massive

1.
(general)Very large in size or extent.
Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.
The Enlightenment involved massive shifts in many areas of Western thought.
2.
Substantial in mass; bulky, heavy and solid.
A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.
3.
(informal)To a very great extent; total, utter.
4.
(colloquial)Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
Did you see Colbert last night? He was massive!
5.
(Ireland, colloquial, informal)Outstanding, beautiful.
Your dress is massive, love. Where did you get it?
6.
(medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
a massive heart attack
7.
(physics, of a particle) Having any mass.
Some bosons are massive while others are massless.
8.
(geology) Homogeneous, unstructured.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

massives

1.
(mineralogy) A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
karst massives in western Georgia
2.
(Multicultural London English, slang)(MLE, slang) A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc.
Big up to the Croydon massive!
Đồng nghĩa: clique, gang, set

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Đồng nghĩa

clique gang set colossal enormous gargantuan giant giganticgreathugemahoosivetitanic awesome excellent stupendous super consequential meaningful overwhelming significant

Trái nghĩa

dwarf little microscopic midget minusculepint-sizedtiny wee crappy disappointing lame stale

Cùng gốc / liên quan

hypermassivemassivitynonmassiveovermassivesubmassivesupermassivesupramassiveultramassiveundermassiveunmassivemassively massivenessonce-massivegravitationally interacting massive particlemassive and compact halo objectmassive astronomical compact halo objectmassive astrophysical compact halo objectmassive compact halo objectmassive palindromemassive parallelism

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif, equivalent to mass + -ive. The Irish sense is possibly derived from ga mas.