ENORMOUS Copy link • ENORMOUSIrregular, enormis (e.g., vicus, Tac., post-Augustan): inusitatus (unusual). Irregularly large, immodestus (kept within no due bounds; e.g., largitio): immoderatus (immoderate; e.g., luxuria): effusus (lavishly poured out; e.g., expense, sumptus): nimius (too great; all these = excessive, immoderate; opposed to moderatus, modestus): insanus (senseless; e.g., cupiditas; pile, moles): impotens (unable to restrain itself; cupiditas; crudelitas): novus: inauditus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) novus et inauditus (unheard of before): singularis (unparalleled in its kind): mirus: mirificus (wonderful): incredibilis (incredible): immanis: vastus (huge, unwieldy, of size; immanis also of prodigious turpitude, facinus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) vastus et immanis: immensus (immense; e.g., pecunia): ingens (huge). Of enormous depth, immensa or infinita altitudine. To go to enormous expense, extra modum sumptu et magnificentia prodire: to build anything at an enormous expense, profuse aliquid exstruere. An enormous duty, portorium pergrande, grave, iniquum, etc. (☞ not enorme).