Both Uses of
massive
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He had on a light grey fashionable loose coat, light summer trousers, and everything about him loose, fashionable and spick and span; his linen was irreproachable, his watch-chain was massive.†
Chpt 2.4massive = very large
- She stared at the gold eye-glass which Pyotr Petrovitch held in his left hand and at the massive and extremely handsome ring with a yellow stone on his middle finger.†
Chpt 5.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(massive) very large in size, number, or effect
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In geology, massive can refer to a type of rock rather than the size of a rock.