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  • The markets panicked as massive losses piled up during the financial crisis.
    massive = very large
  • Massive doors slide open revealing the crowd-lined streets.  (source)
  • Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.  (source)
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  • Her massive head turned on the muscular neck, looking in all directions.  (source)
    massive = very large
  • She appears to be massively overworked.†  (source)
    massively = enormously
  • The harsh fluorescent light, falling straight down on her, turns her eye sockets to caverns, emphasizes the descending lines from nose to chin; but the massiveness of her body makes her head look like an afterthought.†  (source)
    massiveness = the state or degree of being very large
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • An enormous man with a huge head and neck, and massive shoulders, sat behind the desk.  (source)
    massive = very large
  • He intended to return to the city with a cargo of bananas, and shook his stick fiercely at the Congolese women who tried to clamber onto his massively loaded truck for a ride.†  (source)
    massively = enormously
  • Occasionally the ground beneath my feet shook from some faraway pounding and I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow dangerously fragile.†  (source)
    massiveness = the state or degree of being very large
  • His gaze shifted from the massive bulldozer to the bird burrow, then back again.  (source)
    massive = very large
  • Cutting through, massively.†  (source)
    massively = enormously
  • A shining bar of counterfeit massiveness extended down the side of the room.†  (source)
    massiveness = the state or degree of being very large
  • A few seconds later, he arrives at a pair of massive wooden doors set into the cavern's rocky wall.  (source)
    massive = very large
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