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outsize

outsize noun: an unusually large garment size.

Noun

outsize (plural outsizes)

  1. An unusually large garment size.
    Synonyms:
    OS

Adjective

outsize (not comparable)

  1. Of an unusually large size .
    • ...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them...1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11.
    Synonyms:
    outsized
  2. Unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
    • Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.
    • [Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents

Verb

outsize (third-person singular simple present outsizes, present participle outsizing, simple past and past participle outsized)

  1. (intransitive) To exceed in size.
    • Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.2005, Los Angeles Times, headline, September 25, 2005

outsize meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

outsize in Malayalam

enormous, huge, oversized
അസാമാന്യവലിപ്പള്ള, ഭീമാകാരമായ, കൂറ്റൻ, അതിവലിപ്പമായ, ബൃഹത്തായ, അസാധാരണമാം വിധം വിപുലമായ
big, large, massive
വളരെ വലിയ, വലിപ്പമേറിയ, സ്ഥൂലകായനായ, ഭീമാകാരനായ, തടിച്ച, വണ്ണിച്ച

outsize in Kannada

ಅತಿಗಾತ್ರದ, ಅತಿಸ್ಥೂಲವಾದ, ಅತಿಭಾರದ, ಅತಿ ವಿಸ್ತಾರದ, ಅಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಗಾತ್ರದ, ಅಳತೆಮೀರಿದ

Synonyms of outsize

Forms of outsize

Noun
pluraloutsizes
Verb
third-person singular presentoutsizes
present participleoutsizing
past participleoutsized
pastoutsized

Origin of outsize

From out- + size.

Questions about outsize

What does outsize mean?
Outsize means an unusually large garment size.
What is outsize in Malayalam?
Outsize in Malayalam is അസാമാന്യവലിപ്പള്ള, ഭീമാകാരമായ, കൂറ്റൻ. See Outsize meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is outsize?
Outsize can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
What is the plural of outsize?
The plural of outsize is outsizes.

Words near outsize in the dictionary

  1. outsinning
  2. outsins
  3. outsit
  4. outsits
  5. outsitting
  6. outsize
  7. outsized
  8. outsizes
  9. outsizing
  10. outskate
  11. outskated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outsize (page history and authors); outsize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); outsize (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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