Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete)  Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

*, New York 2001, p.105:

all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind.

(obsolete)  Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.

*, II.12:

how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous .

Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

In the state of a solid; not fluid.

Large, massive.

Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

Strong or unyielding.

a solid foundation

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=June 2 , author= Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Belgium , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.}}

(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

That's a solid plan.

Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid .

I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

Hearty; filling.

a solid meal

Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.

* Milton

the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer

* Dryden

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

* J. A. Symonds

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

Sound; not weakly.

a solid constitution of body

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.

The delegation is solid for a candidate.

Of a single color throughout.

John painted the walls solid white.

He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

A solid''' foot contains 1,728 '''solid inches.