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gargantuan
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine , giant , jumbo ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"enormous," 1590s, from Gargantua , name of the voracious giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International 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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a gargantuan task EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A gargantuan Teddy boy was standing in the stalls, looking down at his feet. ▪ As the snow accumulates from that little boreal patch, growing inexorably year after year, gargantuan ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite. 2 huge; immense; tremendous. 3 Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.
Usage examples of gargantuan.
Elvis was a failing Elvis, the gargantuan grunting underbelly of the American dream, reduced to passing out sweaty scarves and brand-new Cadillacs.
I doubt if Fraxinus would sell them what metal he has for a cargo of gargantuan insect-parts.
A gargantuan holoportrait of him hanging in the vast echoing front court stared down at Leyytey as she was shown through the imposing polished heartwood double doors.
But dozens slid through the latticelike intricacies of her point defense lasers and immolated themselves against her drive field in fireballs which gouged at her gargantuan hull.
Instantly, Porro turned with a gargantuan snarl, bearing his sharp white fangs, and crouched for the attack.
Yggdrasil knew in its vegetable fashion that a girdle of foreign substance encircled its waist, but its senses were not adequate to tell it about the tether and the gargantuan turnbuckle that anchored the girdle.
It was dark purplish blue in the early light, but as Vicky watched in awe, it changed colour like some gargantuan chameleon, becoming gilded with bright sun colours and beginning at the same time to recede swiftly, until it was a pale wraith that dissolved into the first dancing heat mirages of the desert -day, and she felt the sultry puff of the rising wind.
There was a gargantuan jumble of machineryratchets and pawls and pinions on a scale that made him feel like a flea in a tower clock.
Have you heard any stories of gargantuan peculations, of murder and rape and misappropriation?
As the starships move closer, the awesome size of the gargantuan Imperial space fortress is revealed.
In this dream, which every now and then still recurs, I am standing publicly at the baseline of a gargantuan tennis court.
The auditorium is Beth Amicha on a gargantuan scale, its bima reaching twenty feet into the air.
Herculean figures with gargantuan torsos rolled boulders up steep hills, in celebration of the building of the Autobahnen.
The betentacled and gargantuan mass of protean tissue that was the obscene reality of Cthulhu was no longer just a literary figment--it was hellishly real and malignantly alive.
The worst thing about Dilaudid for Gately was that the hydromorphone's transit across the blood-brain barrier created a terrible five-second mnemonic hallucination where he was a gargantuan toddler in an XXL Fisher-Price crib in a sandy field under a storm-cloudy sky that bulged and receded like a big gray lung.