Word Finder - greater

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Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.

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A great storm is approaching our shores.

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Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.

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the great auk

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(qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms]

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great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-grandfather

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(followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of.

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great with child

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(except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.

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Extreme or more than usual.

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great worry

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Of significant importance or consequence; important.

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a great decision

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(applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent.

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a great deed

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Impressive or striking.

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a great show of wealth

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Much in use; favoured.

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Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era.

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(applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.

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a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc.

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Title referring to an important leader.

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Alexander the Great

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Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.

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He's not a great one for reading.

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(often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit.

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You are great at singing.

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Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic (from 1848).

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Dinner was great.

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Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.

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Great Scott!

Whatever you think, it's for the greater good.

It was probably greater in the middle.

Their numbers are far greater than anything we ever imagined.

A woman has no greater enemy than a so-called 'decent' woman.

Kris watched him stalk away, unable to shake a sense of guilt.  If he'd gone after Kiki, he wouldn't have put his half-brother at even greater risk.  His judgment had failed him.

There's no greater purpose?

So again, in the case of the Paris curves, the absolute value of the diurnal range in summer was much greater for the Eiffel Tower than for the Bureau Central, but the mean voltage was 2150 at the former station and only 134 at the latter.

I serve a greater purpose.

The two differ in certain details of dentition, and in the greater development in the former of the parachute, especially the interfemoral portion, which in the latter is almost absent.

How could men possibly have a greater desire or need than she had just felt?

I'd like to think there's greater meaning to both of us being reincarnated.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

However, when his father asked if he was ready for a greater challenge he declined.

There is no greater joy for an artist than to know their work is in the hands of someone who truly understands it.

But greater work was at hand.

They will contribute to the greater good.

Julie has greater needs which Molly nurtures while Molly's needs are supported by my wife.

While Dean had briefly touched on his search for Martha's bones at the park that morning, he and Cynthia now repeated the story in greater detail.

I am greater than any thorn-covered sorcerer that every grew in your garden.

Words often make the thought, and the master of words will say things greater than are in him.

So the master of words is master of thoughts which the words create, and says things greater than he could otherwise know.

As they strode into the gardens toward an awaiting helicopter, she couldn't help but think she'd just stepped into something far greater than she could ever imagine.

She didn't like Kris, but he did what he did for some greater cause than himself.

She picked up a piece of sheet music from the stand and could see it required a far greater command of the piano than he was exhibiting.

If he can't deal with that kind of adversity, how could he deal with something greater, like protecting us little humans?

How can you consider yourself acting in the greater good? he snapped, moving to Dusty's body next.

It didn't seem possible for her to succeed at Xander's latest trial, and the consequences were far greater than anything she imagined dealing with.

The most important of these are the greater tolerance by the African animal of sunlight, and the hard nature of its food, which consists chiefly of boughs and roots.

McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861, and Union control was never seriously threatened, in spite of Lee's attempt in the same year.

The task of Cromwell was far greater.

This intermediate region, which has Atlantic characteristics down to 300 fathoms, and at greater depths belongs more properly to the Arctic Sea, commonly receives the name of Norwegian Sea.

The complicated plot is constructed with greater skill than is usual with this dramatist, and the pathos of particular situations, and of the entire character of Penthea - a woman doomed to hopeless misery, but capable of seeking to obtain for her brother a happiness which his cruelty has condemned her to forego - has an intensity and a depth which are all Ford's own.

In the following year he made his first acquaintance with the literature of Spain under the influence of his friend and biographer, Ticknor; and, while its attractiveness proved greater than he had at the outset anticipated, the comparative novelty of the subject as a field for research served as an additional stimulus.

And He is happier than any of us because He is greater than any of us, and also because He not merely SEES your happiness as we do, but He also MADE it.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day.

I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mould, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there.

For the most part the farmer gives to his cattle and hogs the grain of his own producing, and buys flour, which is at least no more wholesome, at a greater cost, at the store.

But I think, again, This is no reason why I should do as they do, or permit others to suffer much greater pain of a different kind.

And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy.

We both inherited our powers while Dusty was like you, a human meant for something much greater.

The whole of Damian's history, his forefathers', all the way to the Beginning, when spirits milled without purpose before the Original Beings shaped the universe into something much greater.

If she left behind a thousand lives, she'd been running for something greater.

Was this what Death meant about doing evil for the greater good?

In Russia her influence has been greater.

Certain of the molar teeth of the middle of the series in both elephants and mastodons have the same number of principal ridges; those in front having fewer, and those behind a greater number.

Archimedes concluded from his measurements that the sun's diameter was greater than 27' and less than 32'; and even Tycho Brahe was so misled by his measures of the apparent diameters of the sun and moon as to conclude that a total eclipse of the sun was impossible.'

It was also the view universally taken by the German governments which supported the Kulturkampf in a greater or less degree.

Both to the east and to the west of this depression the Archean and Palaeozoic rocks which form the greater part of the island are strongly folded, with the exception of the uppermost beds, which belong to the Permian system.