GARGANTUAN: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | gâr'ganchooun
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| | Definition: | | [adj] of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" |
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| | Synonyms: | | big, elephantine, giant, jumbo, large |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gar*gan"tu*an\ (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an
allegorical hero of Rabelais.]
Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage;
enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
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| | Related Terms: | | abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, Atlantean, awesome, boundless, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, Cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, Herculean, heroic, Homeric, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty |
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