Huge, a. [Compar. Huger; superl. Hugest.]
Etymology: [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.
Syn. -- Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for huge; he lists it under large.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.