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massive (adj.)
c. 1400, from Middle French
massif
"bulky, solid," from Old French
masse
"lump" (see
mass
(n.1)). Related:
Massively
;
massiveness
. U.S. Cold War strategy of
massive retaliation
was introduced by J.F. Dulles in early 1954.
