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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gigantic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enormous/massive/gigantic etc proportions
▪ The company is heading towards a disaster of enormous proportions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Gigantic waves more than 40 feet high crashed against the boat.
▪ a gigantic statue of Buddha
▪ These gigantic creatures became extinct in the Jurassic period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dotty herself was in the garden, a straw hat of gigantic proportions crowning her untidy thatch of hair.
▪ Just two seats, an engine and a gigantic price tag of £35,000.
▪ Nowhere else in a country involved in a gigantic war effort could one have found that kind of power to spare.
▪ Once upon a time, Triton had been a gigantic deity, ruling the deep ocean of the unknown.
▪ The house was lit like a Christmas tree and shaped like a gigantic igloo.
▪ This alarm sounds like a gigantic pencil-sharpener grinding up something awful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gigantic

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gigantic

1610s, "pertaining to giants," from Latin gigant- stem of gigantem, from gigas "giant" (see giant) + -ic. Replaced earlier gigantine (c.1600), gigantical (c.1600), giantlike (1570s). Of material or immaterial things, actions, etc., by 1797.

Wiktionary
gigantic

a. 1 Very large. 2 In the manner of a giant.

WordNet
gigantic

adj. 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: mammoth]

Wikipedia
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) is a documentary profiling the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, featuring interviews with Frank Black, Sarah Vowell, Dave Eggers, Jon Stewart, and others. It was directed by AJ Schnack and premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2002. It was released in theaters by Cowboy Pictures, and on DVD by Plexifilm in 2003. The DVD includes bonus features such as music videos, vintage live performances, and more.

Gigantic (song)

"Gigantic" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Pixies, co-written by bassist Kim Deal and lead vocalist/guitarist Black Francis. The song appeared on the band's first studio album, Surfer Rosa, released in 1988. One of the longest songs on the album, "Gigantic" was released as the band's first single later that year.

Featuring Deal on lead vocals, the song is one of Pixies' biggest hits and a crowd favorite at concerts, often played as the encore. The melody line comes from Deal's simple but effective bass playing—the same bassline is repeated throughout the song.

"Gigantic" never achieved a ranking on any major charts and was their only release from Surfer Rosa. However, it was a fairly successful first hit for Pixies and maintains radio play to this day. The single version of the song appeared on Pixies' 2004 best-of compilation, Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies.

Gigantic

Gigantic may refer to:

  • Gigantic (2008 film), a 2008 comedy film
  • Gigantic (2018 film), a 2018 Disney film
  • "Gigantic" (song), a song by Pixies
  • Gigantic (magazine) an American literary magazine
  • Gigantic (video game), a free-to-play video game developed by Motiga
  • Gigantic (TV series), a TV series on TeenNick
  • Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), a 2002 documentary film
  • Gigantism, a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average
  • HMHS Britannic, a ship originally named "RMS Gigantic"
Gigantic (TV series)

Gigantic is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on the TeenNick TV channel. The series is the first scripted show for the channel since its rebranding from The N in September 2009. It premiered on October 8, 2010.

On April 19, 2011, cast member Tony Oller announced on his Twitter account that series would not be renewed for a second season. The show's final episode aired on April 22, 2011.

Gigantic (magazine)

Gigantic is an American literary journal that publishes fiction, art and interviews. In particular, it focuses on short prose or flash fiction. Print issues also have included a special poetry section entitled "The Seizure State," curated by celebrated American poet Joe Wenderoth. It publishes original work online at its website and once a year in a print format. Gigantic was founded in 2008 by four writers living in New York City.

Gigantic (2018 film)

Gigantic is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The film is scheduled to be released on November 21, 2018.

Gigantic (video game)

Gigantic is a free-to-play online team-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by the independent game studio Motiga and published by Perfect World Entertainment. The game focuses on team-based action combat with heroes battling alongside a massive guardian. Players must protect their guardian along with their team and attempt to destroy the opposing team and their guardian.

The game is set to be released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One. The game's beta is set to launch in August 2016.

Gigantic (2008 film)

Gigantic is a 2008 independent comedy film directed by Matt Aselton and starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner and Jane Alexander. The script, written by Aselton and his college friend Adam Nagata, tells of Brian (Dano), a mattress salesman who wishes to adopt a baby from China, but finds himself sharing his passion, with the quirky, wealthy Harriet (Deschanel) when they meet in his store. The story was based on Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a Chinese baby. The film was shot in New York and Connecticut. It had its world premiere at 2008's Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 3, 2009.

Usage examples of "gigantic".

It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.

Those eyes grew and became gigantic, and in them the Cimmerian glimpsed the reality of all the abysmal and blasphemous horrors that lurk in the outer darkness of formless voids and nighted gulfs.

As the Afanc approached, hanging its head in embarrassment, he schooled his features to sobriety and nodded in greeting to the gigantic lake-dweller.

Does it not say that Hu the Mighty, the inventor of husbandry, who brought the Cumry from the summer-country, drew the old afanc out of the lake of lakes with his four gigantic oxen?

Although the shrine was dark and fading sunlight had climbed halfway up the walls, laying a bronze sheen on the cloudily opaque torsoes of the gigantic soldiers, everything in the square apse shone with an intense particularity.

The megatherium is an incongruity of nature, of gigantic proportions, yet ranking in a much humbler order than the elephant, that of the edenta, to which the sloth, ant-eater, and armadilla belong.

I have artichokes with Parmesan cheese, just a little bite of the excellent bread, a few sips of red wine, a plate of eggplant and peppers, and gigantic portions of rib steak, chicken, and lamb.

I saw the gigantic forms of my two great auks, followed by their chicks, blundering past in a shower of spray, driving headlong out into the ocean.

Looking once more from the window, Bibbs sculptured for himself--in the vague contortions of the smoke and fog above the roofs--a gigantic figure with feet pedestaled upon the great buildings and shoulders disappearing in the clouds, a colossus of steel and wholly blackened with soot.

But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.

Bruiser and Christianson were dividing up a gigantic pile of half-raw rattlesnake caviar blintzes Caine walked in.

Now there were either seats slung from above, in which one felt much like a bag of sugar, or chairs bolted to a base plate on springs: in both these cases the weight was quickly indicated by a pointer which swung round a gigantic clock face.

The land along the road into Cabo San Lucas reminded her of a checkerboard: lush tropical plantings interrupted, as though by a knife, by the real landscape, yellow and dry: cacti and strange parched trees and sawtoothed mountains in the distance, formed of gigantic bouldery rubble like the leftovers of some geological building site.

Cabo San Lucas reminded her of a checkerboard: lush tropical plantings interrupted, as though by a knife, by the real landscape, yellow and dry: cacti and strange parched trees and sawtoothed mountains in the distance, formed of gigantic bouldery rubble like the leftovers of some geological building site.

Crockett went, with Brockle Buhn, to the Council Chamber, a cavern gigantic enough to hold the thousands of gnomes who thronged it.