What's the difference between enormous and humongous?

Enormous


Definition:

  • (a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
  • (a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.
  • (2) It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
  • (3) However, it should be stressed that none of these mechanisms is mutually exclusive; indeed, the enormous complexity of tumor promotion suggests that several of the mechanisms discussed above may very well be interrelated.
  • (4) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
  • (5) But he added: “My concern is that if we are to see a rapid move to a world in which all schools must become academies then there will be an enormous challenge to ensure that schools remain properly rooted in their local communities and accountable to parents.” A spokeswoman for the Department for Education rejected all the criticisms.
  • (6) The enormous magnitude of glutamine flowing from muscle to the kidneys is supported by adaptive increases in glutamine synthetase and mitochondrial glutaminase, respectively.
  • (7) There is an enormous sense of one rule for Them and another for Us.
  • (8) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (9) An enormous occurrence of granular endoplasmic reticulum in the intestinal cells of P. commutatus shows an excessive protein synthesis.
  • (10) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
  • (11) The value of universities to the UK is enormous, generating £72bn in value to the UK economy in 2014 on a turnover of £27.3bn.
  • (12) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
  • (13) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
  • (14) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
  • (15) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
  • (16) It was occupied by Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years – 40,000 years.” The prime minister said he knew from his experience leading the unsuccessful campaign for an Australian republic that constitutional change was difficult and required “enormous public support”.
  • (17) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
  • (18) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
  • (19) Breeding experiments in mice have illustrated the enormous genetic heterogeneity of this syndrome, of which the final common pathway is a widespread immune complex disease.
  • (20) The primary source of the enhancement of adhesion is due to the enormous increase of the retentive active surface created by the metal plasma.

Humongous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sarah Ferguson issued a fresh statement in support of Prince Andrew on Tuesday, describing her ex-husband as a “humongously good man” and endorsing Buckingham Palace’s denial of allegations that he had sexual relations with a teenage girl.
  • (2) I will fucking do one humongous deal with you ... Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever.
  • (3) She now has nine million YouTube subscribers and a humongous Twitter following @ZoZeeBo .
  • (4) "The key drivers are the humongous GDP growth [in fast-developing countries], which is three times that in the old world; lots of exports; and a lot higher investment in Asia."
  • (5) Buckingham Palace put out a denial,” Ferguson told NBC’s Today, “and we stand by that denial.” “I won’t stand by – because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you – and not support him so publicly, because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,” said Ferguson, who added: “The American people know my integrity.” She said that given Andrew’s qualities “as a great father, and a humongously good man, and all the works he does for Britain,” she would not “let him have his character defamed to this level”.
  • (6) Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your daughter getting humongous breast implants, after all, there are not serious risks .
  • (7) Eggy swim, rocky swim…” At the hot river Jack draws his first pictures: Humongous Rock, Humongous Rock II (as an adjective “massive” is abandoned as not up to the job), and Iceland (lots of red and black).
  • (8) The humongously flaming Behind the Candelabra failed to get theatrical distribution despite starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, while Interior.
  • (9) Fossil fuel giants already have a humongous credibility gap to fill when it comes to climate and clean energy.
  • (10) Service is exceptional and prices surprisingly low for the humongous portions.
  • (11) the six month Japanese yen Libor rate] unchanged today … I will fucking do one humongous deal with you … Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever … I need you to keep it as low as possible … if you do that … I'll pay you, you know, 50,000 dollars, 100,000 dollars … whatever you want … I'm a man of my word".