The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"huge, immense, gigantic," 1728, from Brobdingnag + -ian.
Usage examples of "brobdingnagian".
Palace of Justice, where Ananke held sway, was a Brobdingnagian place sculpted from blocks of stone larger than entire pyramids on Earth.
Her Brobdingnagian bosom bloused up from a skin of appalling sequins that shimmered down in recognisable ridges over the steatopygous scaffolding that encased her hips.
Towering away from him, too huge to count, were the brobdingnagian shapes of great spaceships.
And in the hurrying crowds, swirling and sifting through the brobdingnagian camp of iron and steel, one saw the camp-followers and the pagan women--there would be work to-day and dancing to-night.
So I happened to be looking in the direction of the wireshop, a full block behind me, when its front wall danced across the street, hotly pursued by brightness intolerable, and struck the vacant storefront opposite like some monstrous charge of Brobdingnagian buckshot.
One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.
These Brobdingnagian ribbons were decorated with mountains and rivers and virgin forests and limitless grasslands on which buffalo grazed, and deserts where diamonds or rubies or gold nuggets might be had for the stooping.