mammoth
Huge in size or amount.
mammoth in a sentence
- Cleaning the whole hall alone was a mammoth task that took all day.
- Baking five hundred cupcakes for the fair was a mammoth job for one small kitchen.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to mammoth?
- Atiny
- Blittle
- Csmall
- Dhuge
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D: huge. The other three mean the opposite of mammoth.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to mammoth?
- Agiant
- Bhuge
- Cenormous
- Dtiny
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D: tiny. The other three mean nearly the same as mammoth.
Words that mean something similar
huge, giant, enormous
Words that mean the opposite
tiny, small, little
More words about size & amount
- meagre: Very small in amount and not enough.
- mere: Nothing more than; only.
- miniature: Very small, like a tiny copy of something bigger.
- moderate: Neither too much nor too little, around the middle.
- monumental: Extremely large or important.
- morsel: A small piece of food.
- multitude: A very large number of people or things.
- notable: Important or interesting enough to be noticed and remembered.
More words to explore
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test