All 6 Uses of
massive
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate.†
Chpt 2massive = very large
- Mr. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.†
Chpt 2
- He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.†
Chpt 7
- Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry.†
Chpt 8 *
- He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure.†
Chpt 11
- I was shocked by the change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter.†
Chpt 11
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.