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Brobdignagian

Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in ``Gulliver's Travels.''] Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant.

Usage examples of "brobdignagian".

If he wakes as a Brobdignagian beefsteak tomato to orbit Papa, an angrily expanding sun, take cover.

For sure enough, all of the men were drinking out of Brobdignagian beer steins, their faces and noses pleasantly coated with beer foam.

Across the water, Brobdignagian towers blocked off half the night sky like a shimmering wall of faceted light, as their reflections seemed to fill half the wide bay.

The head raised itself, the blocks that formed its neck separating into open wedges like a Brobdignagian replica of those jointed, fantastic, little painted reptiles the Japanese toy-makers cut from wood.