outsize
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
Definition of outsize
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- An unusually large garment size.
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noun
- An unusually large garment size.
adj
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(not-comparable)Of an unusually large size .
“1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11. ...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle.”
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(not-comparable)Unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
“Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.”
“[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.”
verb
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(intransitive)To exceed in size.
“Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From out- + size.
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