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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GIGAN'TIC, a. [L. giganticus.] Of extraordinary size; very large; huge; like a giant. A man of gigantic stature.
1. Enormous; very great or mighty; as gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.
Gigantical and gigantine, for gigantic, rarely or never used.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" [syn: gigantic, mammoth]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Greek gigantikos, from gigant-, gigas giant Date: 1630 exceeding the usual or expected (as in size, force, or prominence) <a man of gigantic stature> <made a last gigantic effort> <gigantic industrial combines> Synonyms: see enormous • gigantically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 very large; enormous. 2 like or suited to a giant. Derivatives: gigantesque adj. gigantically adv. Etymology: L gigas gigantis GIANT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gigantic Gi*gan"tic, a. [L. gigas, -antis, giant. See Giant.] 1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. --Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. --Longfellow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as gigantic, you are emphasizing that it is extremely large in size, amount, or degree. ...gigantic rocks... A gigantic task of national reconstruction awaits us. = colossal ADJ [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Huge, vast, enormous, colossal, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean, giant, very large.

Moby Thesaurus

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