{
    "term": "enormous",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "extremely large",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an enormous house/dog"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **enormous amount** of time"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Current processors can perform an enormous number of operations per second."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Universities are **under enormous pressure** financially."
                },
                {
                    "text": "young dancers who show **enormous potential**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their house is absolutely enormous!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The problems facing the President are enormous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An enormous number of people were killed that night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cost of the work was enormous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The council has spent an enormous amount of money on this project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The implications of such a proposal are enormous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've bought an enormous house in the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "enormous fun/​pleasure/​importance/​significance/​flexibility/​scope"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "huge, immense"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈnɔːməs/",
                "audio": "en/enormous/enormous__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈnɔːrməs/",
                "audio": "en/enormous/enormous__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Latin enormis ‘unusual, huge’ (from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + norma ‘pattern, standard’) + -ous."
}