humongous

[hyoo-muhng-guh s, -mong- or, often, yoo-] /hyuˈmʌŋ gəs, -ˈmɒŋ- or, often, yu-/

adjective, Slang.

extraordinarily large.

Origin

1965-70, Americanism; expressive coinage, perhaps reflecting huge and monstrous, with stress pattern of tremendous

Examples from the web for humongous

Even the freshly made bread was served in two humongous slices apiece.
Second, blast the drive with a humongous magnetic field.
The arms are not humongous or long, in fact it may be too short for some of you yeti's out there.
Plant got humongous with many huge, tasteless, watery fruits.
The farad is the humongous unit of capacitance, equal to one coulomb per volt.
Because they'll have to raise humongous amounts of new capital to offset the losses.
The cost of refinancing this in the blighted capital markets would be humongous.
Erasing five little words, for example, transformed a tiny special interest provision into a humongous one.
And unless the humongous deficit is eliminated or greatly curbed, the economy will be going off that cliff.
That's not a humongous proportion of the watching public, but within the world of television ratings, it's quite a chunk.

British Dictionary definitions for humongous

/ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/

adjective

exceptionally large; huge

Word Origin

C20: of uncertain origin

Word Origin and History for humongous

adj.

also humungous, by 1972, American English, apparently a fanciful coinage from huge and monstrous.

Slang definitions & phrases for humongous

adjective

Very large; gigantic: a humongous chain

[1960s+ Students; perhaps a sort of echoic-symbolic blend of huge with monstrous]