• (British) IPA: /ɪˈnɔː(ɹ)məs/

enormous

1. (obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , New York 2001, p.105:

     all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].

2. (obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.

3. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

• massive
• huge
• gigantic
• humongous
• abnormal
• tremendous
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

• French: énorme
• Portuguese: enorme, gigante
• Russian: огро́мный
• Spanish: enorme, ingente