TOO LARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does too large mean? 

• TOO LARGE (adjective)
  The adjective TOO LARGE has 1 sense:

1. excessively large

  Familiarity information: TOO LARGE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOO LARGE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessively large

Synonyms:

overlarge; too large

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

She had, to oblige Edmund, resolved to wear it; but it was too large for the purpose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He may wear his boots much too large for him, or much too small.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Perhaps the jaw was too large.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

One cannot have too large a party.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You may not be aware of your esophagus until you swallow something too large, too hot or too cold.

(Esophagus Disorders, NIH)

He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This room is not well adapted for a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a proportion of our carpet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps the population had grown too large to feed itself as the climate deteriorated.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all but the heel, which was too large.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores, the way most stars do, but also too large to be classified as planets.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)