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large-scale

large-scale adjective: large in amount, scope or extent.

Adjective

large-scale (comparative larger-scale, superlative largest-scale)

  1. Large in amount, scope or extent.
    • Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86
    • The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.1964 March, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145
  2. Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.

large-scale meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

large-scale in Malayalam

wide-ranging, extensive, far-reaching
വൻകിട, വലിയതോതിലുള്ള, മഹാനുമാപ, വൻതോതിലുള്ള, വിശാലമായ, ദൂരവ്യാപകമായ
enlarged, blown-up, magnified
വലിപ്പത്തിലുള്ള, താരതമ്യേന വലിപ്പത്തിലുണ്ടാക്കിയ, വികാസിത, വികസിപ്പിച്ച, വിസ്താരിത, വലുതാക്കിയെടുത്ത

large-scale in Kannada

ಭಾರಿ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ, ಬೃಹತ್ ಗಾತ್ರದ, ಸವಿಸ್ತಾರವಾದ, ವಿವರಗಳನ್ನೊಳಗೊಂಡ

Antonyms of large-scale

Forms of large-scale

comparativelarger-scale
superlativelargest-scale
alternative formlarge scale

Origin of large-scale

From large + scale.

Words formed from large-scale

Questions about large-scale

What does large-scale mean?
Large-scale means large in amount, scope or extent.
What is large-scale in Malayalam?
Large-scale in Malayalam is വൻകിട, വലിയതോതിലുള്ള, മഹാനുമാപ. See Large-scale meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is large-scale?
Large-scale is an adjective.

Words near large-scale in the dictionary

  1. large-hearted
  2. large-heartedly
  3. large-heartedness
  4. large-intestinal
  5. large-minded
  6. large-scale
  7. large-sized
  8. large-spotted civet
  9. large-spotted civets
  10. large-tailed antshrike
  11. large-tailed antshrikes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: large-scale (page history and authors); large-scale (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); large-scale (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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