English Explanatory Dictionary

swingeing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Huge, immense.
  2. Heavy, powerful, scathing.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of swinge.

Pronunciation

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swingeing.wav

Word forms

swingeing more swingeing most swingeing

Etymology

From swinge + -ing. Swinge is derived from Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swengan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).

Synonyms

whopping ample big cosmic bodacious broad commodious considerable expansive good-sized full generous giant grand great hefty hench immense jumbo larger than life largifical leviathan liberal long massive mega- overlarge outsized oversize oversized prodigious roomy rotund sizeable spacious stonking substantial tall vast voluminous wide astronomic behemothic big fat boxcar Brobdingnagian bulky colossal cyclopean Daniel Lambertish elephantine elephantic enormous gargantuan giantesque gigantesque gigantic gigantuan (colloquial nonstandard)) ginormous

Related words

swinge swinger

Derived words

swingeingly
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