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gargantuan definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Gargantua Date: 1596 tremendous in size, volume, or degree ; gigantic, colossal <gargantuan waterfalls>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. enormous, gigantic. Etymology: the name of a giant in Rabelais' book Gargantua (1534)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gargantuan Gar*gan"tu*an (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something is gargantuan, you are emphasizing that it is very large. (WRITTEN) ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions. ...a gargantuan corruption scandal. = huge, colossal ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Brobdingnagian, huge beyond belief, incredibly big, prodigious, enormous, tremendous.

Moby Thesaurus

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty