Section II.—Dimensions
1°. General Dimensions
- Size (Substantives), magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness 31, expanse, amplitude, mass, massiveness.
- Littleness (Substantives), smallness 32, minuteness, diminutiveness, exiguity, inextension, puniness, dwarfishness, epitome, duodecimo, rudiment, microcosm.
Capacity, capaciousness, tonnage (or tunnage), calibre, scantling.
Average size, stock size.
Turgidity, turgidness, expansion 194, corpulence, adiposity, obesity, chubbiness, plumpness, embonpoint, stoutness, out-size, hypertrophy; corporation, flesh and blood, brawn, brawniness.
Hugeness, vastness, enormousness, enormity, immensity, monstrousness, monstrosity; infinity 105.
A giant, Brobdignagian, Antdèus, Gargantua, monster, whale, leviathan, elephant, mammoth, porpoise, colossus, tun, lump, chunk, bulk, block, boulder, mass, bushel, whacker, thumper, whopper, spanker, behemoth.
(Phrases). A Triton among the minnows; the lion's share; Benjamin's mess.
A mountain, mound, heap 72.
(Verbs). To be large, etc., to become large, see Expansion 194.
(Adjectives). Large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, mighty.
Corpulent, stout, fat, plump, buxom, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, brawny, fleshy, beefy, goodly, in good case, chopping, jolly, chubby, full-grown, chub-faced, lubberly, hulking, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, stalwart, spanking.
Overgrown, bloated, tumid, turgid, hypertrophied, swollen, pot-bellied, swag-bellied, puffy, distended, œdematous, dropsical.
Squab, dumpy, squat, squabby, tubby, roly-poly, podgy,pursy, blowsy.
Huge, immense, enormous, mighty, unbounded, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, in-ordinate, preposterous, thumping, whacking, whopping, monstrous, monster; gigantic, giantlike, colossal, mountainous, elephantine, Gargantuan, Falstaffian, Brobdignagian; indefinite, infinite, unbounded.
(Phrases). Large as life; plump as a partridge; fat as a pig; fat as a quail; fat as butter; fat as brawn;1 plump as a dumpling; fat as bacon.
Leanness, emaciation, thinness 203, macilency, flaccidity, meagreness, marcor.
A dwarf, runt, pygmy, Lilliputian, chit, bantam, urchin, elf, doll, puppet, skeleton, ghost, spindle-shanks, shadow, Tom Thumb, manikin.
Animalcule, mite, insect, emmet, fly, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, mushroom, pollard, millet - seed, mustard - seed, grain of sand, mole-hill.