The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gigantesque \Gi`gan*tesque"\, a. [F.] Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque
With which we bantered little Lilia first.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
a. Very large; like a giant; gigantic.
Usage examples of "gigantesque".
The same unconsciousness, the same violent innocence, the same gigantesque scale of action which brought the Napoleon of Comedy his Jena brought him also his Moscow.
But, whenever their efforts are unexpectedly, and for themselves unfortunately successful, they are so taken aback that they lose the power of behaving themselves with even gigantesque propriety.
He would see some very gigantesque figures of speech about the impossibility of threading a needle with a camel or the possibility of throwing a mountain into the sea.
Balzac does, and from this very accumulation he manages to derive that singular gigantesque vagueness --differing from the poetic vague, but ranking next to it--which I have here ventured to note as his distinguishing quality.
Palerme et faire part au roi du gigantesque complot qui se tramait en sa faveur.
She was the only one who saw the gigantesque beauty of the park, in one season its storm-clouds of mauve jacaranda, in another the violent flamboyants flashing bloodily under the sun, or the tulip-trees and bauhinias that in their time shimmered, their supporting skeletons of trunk and branches entirely swarmed over, become shapes composed of petals alive with bees as a corpse come alive with maggots.
Dans les grandes salles envahies par la nuit, les gigantesques machines semblaient des montres au repos.
Exactly where this mount is located is unknown, but it should be noted that the largely unexplored region of the higher Pamirs of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Jammu, and Kashmir contain numerous rock formations unusual in both gigantesque size and odd shape attributable to glacial sculpting.