massive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmasɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɑsɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /-z-/
rhymes: -æsɪv
rhymes: -ɑːsɪv
Forms: form: more massive
form: most massive
Etymology: From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif, equivalent to mass + -ive. The Irish sense is possibly derived from Irish mas (“fine, handsome”).
Senses: examples: text: Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.
text: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref: 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
text: The enlightenment comprises massive shifts in many areas of Western thought.
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Very large in size or extent.
examples: text: A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Very large or bulky and heavy and solid.
examples: text: Notwithstanding Catherine's assurances, I was apprehensive about meeting Denys, worried that I would come off as a massive idiot […]
ref: 2007, Christine Conrad, Mademoiselle Benoir, page 171:
glosses: To a very great extent; total, utter.
examples: text: Did you see Colbert last night? He was massive!
text: Ok true believers here is the low down of massive coolness.
ref: 1995 November 29, harry knowles, “INDEPENDENCE DAY---MASSIVE COOL SPOILERS DON'T OPEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW”, in rec.arts.sf.movies (Usenet):
text: Heaps excited about it - I'm planning for a massive day.
ref: 1998 February 13, David Farrar, “nz.reg.wellington.general”, in Re: Te Papa (Usenet):
text: saw the beasties last week in GERMANY at a massive little party called the Hurricane Festival outside Hamburg and here's how it all shook down[…]
ref: 1998 July 2, super disco dan, “Deasties rock the Hurricane- 06/21/98”, in alt.music.beastie-boys (Usenet):
text: OPEN THROUGH THE SUMMER: We are on the 3rd Saturday of the month, remain at the same venue, at the same price, at the same times and always give you a massive night out to remember (unless you've drunk too much bargain University booze!).
ref: 2003 June 11, Glenn Wendyhouse, “WENDYHOUSE June 21st”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):
text: I own this one, bought it because I liked Slide. The album is quite dull. They were massive back in the day
ref: 2010 July 30, Robbie, “Re: Survivable album chart from 2001”, in uk.music.charts (Usenet):
glosses: Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
examples: text: Your dress is massive, love. Where did you get it?
glosses: Outstanding, beautiful.
examples: text: a massive heart attack
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
examples: text: Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet […] "The only scenario that resulted in a core-density profile similar to what Juno measures today is a head-on impact with a planetary embryo about 10 times more massive than Earth," Liu said.
ref: 2019 August 15, “Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet”, in Rice University News, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a large mass.
examples: text: Some bosons are massive while others are massless.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having any mass.
raw_tags: of a particle
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Homogeneous, unstructured.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Homogeneous, unstructured.
Not having an obvious crystalline structure.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to a large mass
word: bulky
sense: of or pertaining to a large mass
word: heavy
sense: of or pertaining to a large mass
word: hefty
sense: of or pertaining to a large mass
word: substantial
sense: of or pertaining to a large mass
word: weighty
sense: much larger than normal
word: colossal
sense: much larger than normal
word: enormous
sense: much larger than normal
word: gargantuan
sense: much larger than normal
word: giant
sense: much larger than normal
word: gigantic
sense: much larger than normal
word: great
sense: much larger than normal
word: huge
sense: much larger than normal
word: mahoosive
sense: much larger than normal
word: titanic
sense: of great significance or import
word: consequential
sense: of great significance or import
word: meaningful
sense: of great significance or import
word: overwhelming
sense: of great significance or import
word: significant
sense: of great significance or import
word: weighty
sense: of grandeur
word: awesome
sense: of grandeur
word: super
sense: of grandeur
word: excellent
sense: of grandeur
word: stupendous
Derived terms: word: gravitationally interacting massive particle
word: hypermassive
word: mahoosive
word: massive and compact halo object
word: massive astronomical compact halo object
word: massive astrophysical compact halo object
word: massive compact halo object
word: massively
word: massiveness
word: massive palindrome
word: massive parallelism
word: massive retaliation
word: massivity
word: nonmassive
word: once-massive
word: overmassive
word: robust association of massive baryonic objects
word: strongly interacting massive particle
word: submassive
word: supermassive
word: super weakly interacting massive particle
word: supramassive
word: ultramassive
word: undermassive
word: unmassive
word: weakly interacting massive particle