From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishenormouse‧nor‧mous /ɪˈnɔːməs $ -ɔːr-/ ●●●S2W3AWL adjectiveLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTvery big in size or in amountSYN huge
an enormous bunch of flowers
an enormous amount of money
The team made an enormous effort.► see thesaurus at bigGrammarEnormous is not used with ‘very’. You say: Their garden is absolutely enormous.✗Don’t say: Their garden is very enormous.Examples from the Corpusenormous• Their house is enormous.• In the tenthcentury the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.• The conceptual problems of such a model are enormous.• The properties of meteorites tell us an enormous amount about the properties of asteroids.• He has an enormous amount of work to finish before Friday.• The River was an enormous and immediatepopular and criticalsuccess.• The passivesmoking issue holds enormousfears for the tobaccoindustry.• Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormousimpact of fastatombombardmentmass spectrometry on biology.• It gives you enormousmoodswings, which nobody told me about.• Talk is of enormousrelevance in understandingstatus and in developing your own powers of influence.enormous amount of• Despite an enormous amount ofeffort it was not until the 1950s that diamonds were successfully synthesised.• He was a grim man, consumed with a sense of mission and possessed of an enormous amount ofenergy.• The whole system requires enormous amounts of energy.• It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together, and cost an enormous amount of money.• It is also one on which an enormous amount ofresearch remains to be done.• An enormous amount of time is represented by these rocks and unconformities, almost a third of the entirehistory of Earth.• I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it.Originenormous(1500-1600)Latinenormis“out of the ordinary”, from norma“rule”
