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GREAT, a. [L. crassus.]
1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5. Long continued; as a great while.
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
Great are thy works. Jehovah.
10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great.
13. Dignified in aspect,mien or manner.
Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great.
14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
17. Dignified; noble.
Nothing can be great which is not right.
18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 6.
24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. Great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, etc.
GREAT, n. The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great.
1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great, and the great despise the poor.
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Abba Abhorrence Abhorring Ably Abound Abounding Above Abstemiousness Abundance Abundant Accent Acceptation Accommodation Accountant Accumulate Accumulated Accumulating Achievement Acitli Acorus Acoustic Act Action Active Adjournment Administration Admiral Admiralty Admiration Admire Admirer Admittance Ado Adoration Adored Adoring Adorn Advance Advantage Affecting Affectionate Affluence Affright Affrightful Aga Agave Aggrandize Aggrandized Aggrandizing Agnomination Air Albatros Alien Alienation Alimentary Alive All Alleghany Alligator Allioth Almost Aloud Alto-ripieno Alum Amass Amassed Amazedness Amazement America Ample Ampliate Ancient Andean Andiron Angel Angle Anhima Animal-flower Animation Annals Annex Anointed Answer Ant Anti-christ Anticlimax Antimeter Antiphonal Antiquity Anxious Anxiousness Aorta Aortal Apagogy Ape Apogee Apotome Apparatus Appendage Application Apsis Aquitanian Archchamberlain Archcount Archheresy Archhypocrite Archtreasurer Archtyrant Archvillain Archvillany Arcuation Arduous Armenia Army Arseniac Artillery As Ascending Ashamed Aspire Aspiring Assay Assent Assizes Astonishing Astrology Attain Attainment Attar Attraction Augean Augur Auk Authority Awe Axiom Azerit Bachelor Bacule Balk Ballot Balsam Baron Barre Barrier Baryta Basking-shark Beam Bean-cod Bear Bearing-cloth Beau Beauteous Beet Belly-god Bellyful Beloved Belt Bench Benedictines Bepraise Bernardins Besayle Beside Best Betray Better Beyond Bibler Big Bigbellied Bignamed Bigswoln Billow Biquintile Birdsnest Bishop Bison Bittervetch Bivouac Blench Blessing Blusterer Boiar Bold Boldness Bomb Boundary Bow Bower Bowlder Boy Brail Break Breeze Brilliancy Brimstone Britannic British Broad-seal Broil Brother Buffel Buffet Bulimy Bulk Bulkiness Bulky Bulls-eye Burgomaster Burlesk Burly Bustle But Butchery Butler Buzzard Byzant Cabbage-tree Cabirian Calamitously Calamity Calender Calk Can Candlemas Canonical Canthus Capital Capstan Captain Carat Care Carline-thistle Carmine Carnage Carnaval Carp Carry Cart Cassavi Cassowary Cat-gut Cataract Catch Cattle Caul Cause Cavern Cedar Ceil Celandine Celebrity Century Ceremoniousness Cerium Chamberlain Chancellor Chancery Chapel Chaplain Chapless Chard Chargeably Charless-wain Chasideans Check Cheer Chestnut-tree Chink Choicely Chronometer Cinnamon Circean Circle Circular City Clamor Clamoring Clarenceux Cleve Climacteric Clock Cloud Co-operate Coal-fish Cobalt Cofferer Cognomination Colander Cold College Colon Colonnade Colure Combustibleness Commandment Commission Common Commonalty Commons Commonweal Commutation Comparative Compassionate Complacence Compliance Comprehend Comprehensibly Comprehensive Comprehensively Compunction Conceit Conception Concernment Concomitant Concurrence Concussion Condor Confessedly Conflagration Confoundedly Conge Congress Consent Consequence Consolation Constable Constat Consummate Contempt Content Contentment Continent Continual Controller Controversy Conveniency Convention Copious Copiousness Corn Corpulent Correspondency Corruption Cortes Cost Costliness Costly Cotton Couch Cough Council Counselor Countenance Courtesy Courtier Coveted Cramp Crane Crashing Crater Creature Credibility Credit Cresset Crime Criminous Crowth Crustaceous Cry Crying Culverin Curiosity Currency Curse Custom Daisy Darkness Darling Date Date-tree Day Deal Dear Dearloved Dearly Dearness Declaration Deed Deed-achieving Deep Deeply Deference Defile Definitive Defloration Degree Deism Delactable Delectation Delegate Delicacy Deliciousness Delight Delighted Delightful Delightfully Delightfulness Deliverance Deluge Demagogue Demand Demi-cannon Dependence Depopulate Derive Desideratum Desire Desperate Desperately Determination Devil Devilishly Devotion Diatessaron Diatonic Die Difficulty Dignified Dike Dilated Diluvian Dip Dipping-needle Dire Discerner Discomfiture Discouragement Discretive Disgorge Disgorged Disgorging Disguise Dishonor Display Dispose Dispute Distance Distinctness Distress Distressed Distressedness Divers Diverse Diversity Divine Dogfish Domify Dominion Doomsday Doree Dormouse Dower Dragon-fly Draw Dread Dreadful Drier Drive Dropsy Duke Dunning Eagerly Eagle Earl-marshal Ease Easily Easy Ecliptic Edifice Effect Effort Effulgence Egregious Egregiously Egregiousness Elaborate Elaborately Elaborateness Election Electricity Elegance Elephant Ell Elongate Elongating Eloquence Embrasure Emigrate Eminence Empire Employ Emulate Enamel Encourager Endowment Enlarge Enormous Enormouseness Enterprising Entertain Entire Eolipile Epicycle Epidemic Episode Epode Equanimity Equator Equinoctial Equity Estate Esteem Estimable Ether Europe Evaporation Even-tide Eventful Evolution Exaggerate Exaltation Exaltedness Examiner Exceed Exceeding Exceedingly Exceedingness Excel Excellent Excess Excommunication Exertion Exhaustion Expend Expense Expensively Expensiveness Exploit Expository Exquisitely Exsude Extensional Extensive Extensively Extent Extravagant Extreme Extremely Exuberantly Exuberate Exultation Exulting Exuvlae Eye Facility Fair Fall Fame Famously Famousness Far Far-piercing Far-shooting Farm Farmer Farther Farthest Farthing Fatality Fatherlasher Favorite Favoritism Fear Feast Fecundity Feed Feeling Feelingly Felicity Fellowship Fervently Fetch Feud Fiddle Fieldfare Fill Fillet Finical Finically Fire Firmament Flagrancy Flame Flamingly Flatterer Flexible Flood Floodgate Flour Flourish Flutter Focil Foil Follow Fond Fondly For Force Forcibly Forest Forge Fortune Foulder Founder Fret Fullness Further Furthest Gallantry Gallstone Garbler Garter General Generality Generate Genitive Gentleman Gentry Genus Ghost Gigantic Ginseng Gladness Gland Gloriously Glow Glowingly Go Goats-stones Godliness Godwit Good Government Grace Grand Grandeur Grandevity Grandevous Grandity Grandness Granit Grave Gravity Great Greatly Greatness Grenade Grievous Grievously Grievousness Gross Grossly Grossness Grow Guild Guinea Gypsey Habit Hainous Halibut Hand Hard Hardening Hardily Hardly Harmoniously Harping Haste Hate Hated Hateful Hatefully Hating Hatred Head Heap Heat Heath Heaven Heavily Heaviness Heavy Herald Herculean Hereditary Hermodactyl Hero Heron Herring High High-climbing High-designing High-flaming High-raised High-reaching High-swelling High-swoln Highly Highness Hight Highth Highway Hold Homer Honor Hooting Horizon Horn Horror Horse Host Hourly House Hover However Howling Hubbub Huge Hugely Humbird Humbly Humor Humorist Hunger Hurl Hurry Hurrying Husband Hyacinth Hyperbaton Hyperbole Hypermeter Iceberg Ichneumon Idolater Ieland Ilex Illustrious Illustriousness Image Immane Immense Immensely Immensity Impeachment Impetuosity Impetuous Import Importance Important Inadvertence Inch Incite Incoming Incomparably Inconvenience Increase Indeed Independence Indianite Indicate Indiction Individual Induction Infant Infest Infidel Infinite Infinitely Infiniteness Infinitude Influence Influx Ingreat Ingurgitate Ingurgitation Inimitably Injure Innate Innovator Insight Inspissate Instate Intenseness Intensity Intention Intimidate Inverse Inversely Irritability Ivory Ivy Job Join Joiner Jolthead Joyfulness Jubilee Jump Keeper Kevel King Knack Knight Knit Lab Labor Laborsome Large Largeness Laureate Lay Lean Learning Learnt Lee Leet Legion Legionary Legislature Length Lengthful Lengthy Less Levee Leviathan Lie Light Lightly Like Lily Line List Lithomarga Little Live Lizard Loach Lodge Long Long-headed Long-sighted Long-sightedness Longer Longest Longevity Longevous Longinquity Longitude Longspun Loquaciousness Lord Lote Loud Loudly Loudness Lovingly Lowly Luster Lusty Luxuriance Macrocosm Macrology Madder Magisterial Magistrature Magnanimity Magnanimous Magnanimously Magnificence Magnify Magniloquence Magnitude Main Mainly Majesty Major Majority Make Management Manager Manifestation Manner Manners Manor Many Maple-tree Maranatha Marble March Mark Maroon Marquis Mass Massicot Master Matter Maxim Maximum Meadow Mean Meanly Measure Meditate Medium Megacosm Megalonyx Megalopolis Megatherium Melancholy Mercury Mercy Merger Meridian Metropolis Mickle Microcosm Micrometer Might Mightily Mightiness Mighty Million Minnow Mint Miscarry Mischievousness Misconception Misconstrue Misery Misletoe Miss Mitigate Mock Monarch Monarchy Money Monopoly Monster Monstrosity Monstrously Monument More Moreness Mortality Most Mostly Mount Mow Much Multifarious Multifariously Multitude Multitudinous Mummy Munch Muse Mystery Nabob Nankeen Narrow Nation Natrolite Naturalization Navy Nearly Negboor Neglect Neighbor Neither Ness Nicety Nickel Nimbleness Niter No Nobility Noble Nobleness Nobless Nobly Noise Non-juring Non-juror Nonage Nor Nothing Novelty Now Number Numerous Numerously Numerousness O Oak Observation Observe Observer Obstinacy Obstinate Ocean Ode Offend Offense Officer Old Omega One Opinion Opium Oppressor Orach Orang-outang Orchard Order Ordnance Ornament Orthodromics Ourselves Outgrow Outrage Outrageously Overburden Overcharge Overdose Overflowingly Overforwardness Overfreight Overgreat Overjoy Overlade Overlarge Overmuch Overplus Overproportion Overweight Pack Page Painstaking Palace-court Palm Pantler Parcel Parliament Part Particularity Particularly Partridge Pass Paten Peace Peck Pelagic Penetration Pension People Perfection Peripolygonal Peroration Perpetuate Perseverance Person Perturbation Petition Phosphorus Pica Picturesk Piece Pietist Pimento Piston Pith Plague Plaguily Plainness Plane Plane-tree Platonic Plurality Point Pole Pole-star Policy Pollock Polynesia Pompously Pompousness Ponderously Popular Populate Population Position Possession Possibility Potash Potato Potent Potentate Potently Power Powerful Powerfully Powerfulness Prairy Praise Preach Precedence Precious Preciously Preciousness Precipitantly Precipitation Preciptancy Prelacy Prematureness Preponderate Prerogative Prerogative-court Presence Presence-chamber Press Pretend Pretender Prevail Prevent Prevention Priest Prim Primogeniture Privilege Privileged Privy Privy-seal Prize Process Prodigious Prodigiously Prodigy Produce Product Productive Profit Profuseness Prolific Prolifically Prolix Prolixity Prolixness Promise Promiser Promote Promptness Pronoun Property Prorogation Prosecute Prostration Protection Prove Proverb Providence Province Prude Puceron Puissantly Puncheon Punctiliously Pusillanimity Put Putrefaction Putting-stone Pyramoid Quadrant Quarter Quit Quotient Rack Radically Raise Ramp Rane Ranging Ransom Rap Rapidly Rapture Rather Raven Read Real Realgar Recent Reconcile Recorder Redeem Redundant Refulgently Regard Regurgitate Reign Rejoice Relic Relish Reluctance Remain Remarkably Remove Render Renew Renown Renowned Reparation Represent Reproduction Reputable Request Requisite Resemblance Resplendently Restore Retreat Return Reverence Reverently Reward Rich Ride Rifely Right Rime Ringlet Rise Romance Room Rope Rosicrucian Rot Round Rousing Rug Ruin Rumination Rumor Run Sabbath Sadden Saltation Salvation Sanhedrim Sanscrit Sastra Sauce Savagism Scallop Scantiness Scarceness Scholarship School Sciolist Scorner Scorning Scourge Scuffle Scum Scurvy Sea-navelwort Secondary Security Sedition See Seed Seem Sejant Self-neglecting Sensibility Sensible Separability Serene Seriousness Serve Sesquiduplicate Set Settlement Seventeenth Severely Shadow Shake Shammy Share Sharpen Shave Shear-water Sheep Sheild Shipment Shipping Shirley Shirt Shoal Shole Shore Short Short-sightedness Shot Shoulder-clapper Shout Shovel Shower Showiness Showy Siberian Side Sight Sighted Signet Silver Simplify Sink Sire Sitter Skirmish Slaughter Slaveish Slavery Sleigh Slight Sloth Slothful Slow Small Smite So Society Sock Solan-goose Solemnity Solicitor-general Solitude Some Something Somewhat Sore Sorely Soul Soulless Sour Source South Spare Speaking-trumpet Specious Spherical Spherule Spin Spirit Splendidly Splendor Sporadic Sporadical Sport Spred Spring Springy Spruce Spry Spunge Spur Square Squire Stack Stage Standard Starch Startle State State-room Station Stationary Stead Steeliness Steelyard Steep Steerage Stem Step Steward Stickler Stipendiary Stipulate Stipulated Stone Stoop Stop Store Store-house Story Stowage Strain Straining Strangeness Stress Stretch Strife Stroke Strong Strongly Struggle Struggling Studier Stupefy Stupor Style Subinfeudation Subject Sublapsary Sublimely Subsidize Subsidy Subtraction Sugar Sulphore Sum Sumptuously Superabounding Supercelestial Superfluity Superior Superiority Superparticular Superpartient Suppose Supremacy Supreme Surcharge Surely Surge Surplusage Swagger Swallow-wort Swarm Swash Sweepy Sweinmote Swift Swill Swimmingly Swing Sycophant Sympathetic Sympathize Synagogue Syzygy Table Taboo Taciturnity Take Talent Talk Tamarin Tantivy Task Taste Team Temper Tempest Tempestuously Temporary Temptation Tempter Ten Tender-hearted Tenet Tension Term Tern Ternary Terrible Terribly Terrific That Thence Theorbo Theorist Thick Thickly Think Thorn Thousand Thrive Throne Throng Through Thump Tide-gate Tidings Timely Tivy Toddy Tolerate Tongue-pad Torment Torrent Torrid Tory Touch Tract Tradition Traffick Train Trample Transcursion Transportation Transposition Tread Treason Treasure Tree Tremendously Trencher-man Trenching Trepidation Triangle Trice Trispast Triumph Truism Trumpet Truncheon Trust Tug Tugger Tugging Tulip Tumult Tumultuous Turn Turnep Typhus Umpire Unadmired Uncertainty Unconstitutional Undeeded Undelightful Under Understanding Undertaking Unhappiness Unheeded Unimportant Union Unity Universal Unknown Unworthy Uproar Urge Ursa Usher Utmost Uttermost Value Variety Vast Vastly Vastness Vasty Vavasor Veer Veering Vehemence Vehement Vehemently Velocity Venerably Vengeance Vent Verily Vermin Vertical Very Vesation Veterinary Veto Vexatiously Vexatiousness Vice-admiral Victuals View Vigorously Villan Vine Virtuous Vivacity Volatileness Volition Votary Votive Voucher Vouchsafement Waits War Warily Wariness Warming-stone Warmth Warrant Wash Waste Waster Wasting Watchfulness Water Water-logged Way Waywode Weak Wealth Weevil Weight Weighty Welcome Well-beloved What Whereas Wherry Whig Whirligig Wide Widely Wideness Will Wilt Windlass Wine-bibber Wing Wiredraw Wiredrawing Wiredrawn Wiseacre Without Witness Witwall Wolf-net Wonder Word World Worm Worth Wrack Wrathful Wrest Wrought Y Yacht Year

 

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