outsize

a. 特大的 n. 特大号

词形变化

outsizes 复数 outsizes outsized outsizes 三单 outsizing outsizing 现在分词 outsized 过去式 outsized 过去分词

别名

OS

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An unusually large garment size.

v.
  1. 1.

    To exceed in size.

    不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    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.

  2. 2.

    Unintuitively or unexpectedly large.

    Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

size
形容词

同义词 3

oversized oversize outsized

近义相关 2

big large

词源

From out- + size.

来源：wiktionary