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Mas·sive  (msv), Mount
A peak, 4,398.4 m (14,421 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.

mas·sive  (msv)
adj.
1. Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid: a massive piece of furniture.
2. Large or imposing, as in quantity, scope, degree, intensity, or scale: "Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power" (John Foster Dulles). See Synonyms at heavy.
3. Large in comparison with the usual amount: a massive dose of a drug.
4. Pathology Affecting a large area of bodily tissue; widespread and severe: massive gangrene.
5. Mineralogy Lacking internal crystalline structure; amorphous.
6. Geology Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.

[Middle English massif, from Old French, from masse, mass; see mass.]

massive·ly adv.
massive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.massiveness - an unwieldy largeness
bigness, largeness - the property of having a relatively great size
2.massiveness - the property of being large in mass
heaviness, weightiness - the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead"
Translations
massiveness [ˈmæsɪvnɪs] N [of wall] → solidez f, lo macizo; [of increase, dose, explosion, effort] → enormidad f; [of person, head, body, boulder] → lo gigantesco
massiveness
n (of expanse of land, plane, ship, hotel etc)riesige or gewaltige Ausmaße pl; (of fortune, expenditure, orchestra)enorme Größe; (of structure, wall)Wuchtigkeit f, → Massivität f; (of boxer, forehead)Wuchtigkeit f; the massiveness of the taskdie gewaltige Aufgabe


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