Word Finder - greatest

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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!

You're not exactly the greatest protector!

The greatest lesson I've learned this life is survival.

Its greatest value cannot be hauled off.

He held the ruler of the greatest kingdom at his mercy!

Ol' Woodie was the greatest pitcher ever.

Its greatest length is 2400 m.

She was a fool, the greatest of them all!

His greatest achievements were his children.

Jade had trained under Kris, the greatest of the Immortal warriors, and knew Sasha to be a lazy fighter.

The difficult task of rounding her up and holding her down wasn't his greatest concern about an examination.

Some of the private industry's greatest minds are with the VP in the cliff.

Thousands of years ago the greatest country, in the world was Egypt.

I guess my greatest fear is that he will be disappointed in me.

The free enterprise system—the greatest creator of wealth the world has known—will continue to produce the material gains we enjoy today and to reward most those who serve their fellow humans best.

She had once told him that children were her greatest dream ... next to a husband, she had amended.

The greatest proportion of strikes takes place in northern Italy, especially Lombardy and Piedmont, where manufacturing industries are most developed.

The greatest increase has taken place in technical educarion, where it has been much more rapid than in classical education.

The greatest of the popes thus breathed his last; but the new spirit he had communicated to the papacy was not destined to expire with him.

But by far tht greatest profit the Italians reaped was the emancipation of theh burghs.

St Ambrose, one of the greatest sons of Trier, was born here about 340.

Its greatest length in a straight line along the mainland is from N.W.

James Prinsep was then devoting his rare genius to the decipherment of the early inscriptions of northern India, especially those of Asoka in the 3rd century B.C. He derived the greatest assistance from Tumour's work not only in historical information, but also as regards the forms of words and grammatical inflexions.

This undoubtedly is the greatest record for train safety ever known in the world.

There is not a single plate that is unworthy of the greatest of all animal painters.

Tone, who accompanied it as "Adjutant-general Smith," had the greatest contempt for the seamanship of the French sailors, which was amply justified by the disastrous result of the invasion.

He never lost an opportunity, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, of pressing on his hearers that the greatest future for Canada lay in unity with the rest of the British Empire; and his broad statesman-like judgment made him an authority which politicians of all parties were glad to consult.

Her husband distinguished himself both as actor and playwright, and his Parisien (1682) gave Mme Guerin one of her greatest successes.

In that licentious university Francis found the greatest difficulty in resisting attacks on his virtue, and once at least had to draw his sword to defend his personal safety against a band of ruffians.

It generally happens that to obtain the greatest possible amount of work from a given supply of energy, and to obtain it at the greatest rate, are conflicting interests.

We have seen that the efficiency of an electromagnetic engine is greatest when the current is indefinitely small, and then the rate at which it works is also indefinitely small.

The parasitic Nematodes include by far the greatest number of the known genera; they are found in nearly all the orders of the animal kingdom, but more especially among the Vertebrata, and of these the Mammalia are infested by a greater variety than any of the other groups.

Theoretically for a given outside diameter of core the greatest speed of signalling through a cable is obtained when the diameter of the conductor is 606 (1/,/e) the diameter of the core, but this ratio makes the thickness of the guttapercha covering insufficient for mechanical strength.

Marconi also showed that if such a bent receiving antenna was used the greatest oscillations were created in it when its insulated end pointed directly away from the sending station.

This helix is presented or held near to the antenna, and the length of it shortened until oscillations of the greatest intensity are produced in the helix as indicated by the use of an indicator of fluorescent paper.

One of the greatest advances made in the development of the art of telephony was the introduction of the " common battery relay system."

Matthias consolidated his position by alliances with the dukes of Saxony and Bavaria, with the Swiss Confederation, and the archbishop of Salzburg, and was henceforth the greatest potentate in central Europe.

Matthias Hunyadi was indisputably the greatest man of his day, and one of the greatest monarchs who ever reigned.

The greatest quantity is produced in Lombardy, Piedmont, Venetia and Tuscany.

The greatest number of savings banks exists in Lombardy; Piedmont and Venetia come next.

It was bold policy to confide Frederick to his greatest enemy and rival; but the pope honorably discharged his duty, until his ward outgrew the years of tutelage, and became a fair mark for ecclesiastical hostility.

Venice, however, in the 14th century took her place at last as an Italian power on an equality at least with the very greatest.

The reaction, which was dull and heavy in the dominions of the pope and of Victor Emmanuel, systematically harsh in the Austrian states of the north, and comparatively mild in Parma and Tuscany, excited the greatest loathing in southern Italy and Sicily, because there it was directed by a dynasty which had aroused feelings of hatred mingled with contempt.

The visit was marked by the greatest cordiality, Count Robilants fears of inopportune pressure with regard to Irredentism proving groundless.

The catastrophe was the greatest of its kind that has ever occurred in any country; the number of persons killed was approximately 150,000, while the injured were beyond calculation.

The greatest variation, however, is seen in the tentacles.

The circular system is developed continuously over the entire subumbral surface, and the velum represents a special local development of this system, at a region where it is able to act at the greatest mechanical advantage in producing the contractions of the umbrella by which the animal progresses.

He further conceives of this stage as itself a process of (natural) development, namely, of the natural disposition of the species to vary in the greatest possible manner so as to preserve its unity through a process of self-adaptation (Anarten) to climate.

This moral development is regarded as a gradual approach to that rational, social and political state in which will be realized the greatest possible quantity of liberty.

The leaf of the higher plants will be taken as the illustrative case because it is the most plastic of the members, the one, that is, which presents the greatest variety of adaptations, and because it has been most thoroughly studied.

But within these there is the greatest local diversity of moisture, elevation and isolation.