- 1超大的、巨大無比的(口語、帶誇張;不像 enormous 那樣正式)
Humongous means very, very big — not a real measured size, but a feeling of size. People say it when they want the thing to sound almost too big, and a little funny: a humongous pizza, a humongous bag, a humongous problem. It is casual talk, often from young people or in jokes. You would not put it in a serious report or a careful school essay; huge or enormous belongs there. It is American in feel, though many people outside the US use it now. Though actually, speakers do not agree on how much bigger than huge it is — it is just extra stress, not a step on a ruler.
組成An expressive adjective, not an old built word. It was probably shaped after huge at the start, with an ending like monstrous.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
humongousadj/ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/
- 1
informalOf an extremely large size.
- Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson.
- Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.
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