writ largest

Adjective

writ large (comparative writ larger, superlative writ largest)

1. (figuratively, postpositional) On a large scale; magnified.
   • Since then his character had been ripened by a various experience, and also by much knowledge which he had set himself deliberately to gain. But the man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary.1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, pages 202–203

   Antonyms:

   writ small

2. (figuratively, postpositional) Readily discerned, unmistakably indicated; clear, obvious.
   • "You don't want to live down there!" everybody said, with disapprobation writ large upon their faces. "Why, it is said there are places where a man's life isn't worth tu'pence."1903 October, Jack London, “The Descent”, in The People of the Abyss, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2
3. (figuratively, postpositional) In general.
   • In the case of Malaysia, for instance, the regime depends not on "labour" writ large but specifically on the unorganised Malay masses.2009, Thomas Pepinsky, Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40