Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class II. Words Relating to SpaceSection II. Dimensions
1. General Dimensions
192. Size.
CAPACITY; tonnage or tunnage; cordage; caliber or calibre; scantling [obs.].
CORPULENCE, obesity; plumpness &c. adj.; embonpoint [F.], corporation [colloq.], flesh and blood, lustihood; turgidity (expansion) [See Expansion].
HUGENESS &c. adj.; enormity, immensity; monstrosity.
GIANT, Brobdingnagian, Antæus, Goliath, Polyphemus, Colossus, Titan, Titaness, Briareus, Norn, Hercules, Cyclops, Gog and Magog, Gargantua; monster, mammoth, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, jumbo [colloq.], hippopotamus; colossus.
LUMP, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad [slang, U. S.], clod, nugget, tun, cord, bushel; thumper [slang], whopper or whapper [colloq.], spanker [slang], strapper [slang]; “Triton among the minnows” [Coriolanus].
mountain, mound; heap (assemblage) [See Assemblage].
FULL-SIZE, life-size; largest portion [See Whole].
STOUT, corpulent, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping [colloq.], bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; cornfed, gram-fed [Anglo-Ind.]; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good -case, – condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; club-faced [obs.], chubby-faced.
large as life; plump as a -dumpling, – partridge; fat as -a pig, – a quail, – butter, – brawn, – bacon [all colloq.].
HULKY, hulking, unwieldy, lumpish, lubberly, gaunt, spanking [slang.], whacking [colloq.], whopping [colloq.], thumping [colloq.], thundering [colloq.], overgrown; puffy (swollen) [See Expansion].
HUGE, immense, enormous, titanic, mighty; vast, vasty [archaic]; stupendous; monster, monstrous; gigantic; elephantine; giant, giantlike; colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite [See Infinity].