Vocabulary
Enormity
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.
Urdu meaning
سخت برائی، سنگین جرم،بداخلاقی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Agriculture allocations of 14bn are risible against the enormity of the challenge.
- Due to the enormity of the disaster, complete recovery will take many more years.
- Why do the Umar Hayats and Zahir Jaffers of this world not see the enormity of their actions?
- Herehabilitated intuition to reason and in his own words emerged as an `innovator of the millennium` in the history of mystic thought in Islam, a claim which Dr Fazlur Rahman says has been vindicated by the enormity of his work.
- Today, leadership matters even more given the enormity and complexity of the problems at hand.
Synonyms
wickedness, evilness, vileness, baseness, blackness, depravity, outrageousness
Curator example
“a thorough search disclosed the full enormity of the crime”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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