What does enormous mean?
Word: Enormous
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Enormous means very big indeed, much larger than usual.
Synonyms: giant, massive, vast
Antonyms: tiny, small
How do you spell enormous?
Syllables: e - nor - mous
Tricky part: The middle is nor, as in normal. Children who stretch the sound often slip in a u and write enourmous.
Watch out for: enormos, enourmous, enormas
Memory tip: Picture an enormous elephant running away from a tiny mouse. The end of enormous sounds like mouse, and it is spelt like mouse without its final e.
Enormous in a sentence
Example 1: An enormous banyan tree shades the whole village square.
Example 2: Dad cooked an enormous pot of rajma for the family lunch.
Example 3: The ship looked enormous next to our little boat.
Fun Fact
Enormous comes from the Latin enormis, out of the usual pattern, from norma, a rule, the word that also gives us normal.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
enormous
a) quiet
b) heavy
c) huge
d) narrow
Show answer
c) huge. Huge and enormous both mean very big indeed.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
An inormous kite got stuck on top of our water tank.
a) stuck
b) water
c) inormous
d) kite
Show answer
c) inormous. Enormous begins with e, not i.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) elefant
b) enormous
c) dinasaur
d) kangeroo
Show answer
b) enormous. Elephant needs ph, kangaroo has an a after the g, and dinosaur has an o after the n, so enormous is the one spelt right.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
enormous
a) ley
b) lie
c) lly
d) ly
Show answer
d) ly. Enormous + ly makes enormously, as in an enormously tall tree.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Pick the one that is enormous.
a) a school bag
b) a water bottle
c) a cricket bat
d) a cargo ship
Show answer
d) a cargo ship
2. Mira said the pumpkin at the fair was enormous. What did she mean?
a) It was older than most pumpkins.
b) It was riper than most pumpkins.
c) It was rounder than most pumpkins.
d) It was far bigger than most pumpkins.
Show answer
d) It was far bigger than most pumpkins.
