massive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
medicine
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif, equivalent to mass + -ive. The Irish sense is possibly derived from Irish mas (“fine, handsome”).
Base: mass
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more massive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most massive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: massives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very large in size or extent.
pos: adj
tags: general
examples: 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.
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."
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.
gloss: Substantial in mass; bulky, heavy and solid.
pos: adj
examples: A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.
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.
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.
gloss: To a very great extent; total, utter.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Notwithstanding Catherine's assurances, I was apprehensive about meeting Denys, worried that I would come off as a massive idiot […]
gloss: Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Did you see Colbert last night? He was massive!
Ok true believers here is the low down of massive coolness.
Heaps excited about it - I'm planning for a massive day.
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[…]
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!).
I own this one, bought it because I liked Slide. The album is quite dull. They were massive back in the day
gloss: Outstanding, beautiful.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
colloquial
informal
examples: Your dress is massive, love. Where did you get it?
gloss: Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
pos: adj
examples: a massive heart attack
gloss: Having any mass.
pos: adj
examples: Some bosons are massive while others are massless.
gloss: Homogeneous, unstructured.
pos: adj
gloss: Homogeneous, unstructured.
pos: adj
gloss: A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
pos: noun
examples: karst massives in western Georgia
gloss: A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: Big up to the Croydon massive!
Synonyms: bulky
heavy
hefty
substantial
weighty
consequential
meaningful
overwhelming
significant
Antonyms: insubstantial
light
dwarf
little
microscopic
midget
minuscule
pint-sized
tiny
wee
inconsequential
insignificant
piddling
trifling
trivial
unimportant
lame
stale
disappointing
crappy
massless
Derived words: gravitationally interacting massive particle
hypermassive
mahoosive
massive and compact halo object
massive astronomical compact halo object
massive astrophysical compact halo object
massive compact halo object
massively
massiveness
massive palindrome
massive parallelism
massive resistance
massive retaliation
massivity
nonmassive
once-massive
overmassive
robust association of massive baryonic objects
strongly interacting massive particle
submassive
supermassive
super weakly interacting massive particle
supramassive
ultramassive
undermassive
unmassive
weakly interacting massive particle
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