Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of immense size, extent, or quantity. synonym: enormous.
- adjective Of exceedingly great scope or nature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Gargantua (see etymology); hence, great beyond credibility; enormous; prodigious; Brobdingnagian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
- adjective
Huge ;immense ;tremendous . - adjective Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of great mass; huge and bulky
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Washington Post reported on May 12 that "sources with knowledge of the program" said that the Bush administration had been collecting the domestic telephone records in "gargantuan databases" and that the "companies cooperating with the NSA dominate the U.S. telecommunications market and connect hundreds of billions of telephone calls each year."
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I almost bailed when I saw that the images were wrapped up in gargantuan Flash downloadables, but I'm glad I didn't.
Boing Boing: September 30, 2001 - October 6, 2001 Archives 2001
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Ace called her gargantuan Sasquatch and that set me into a laughing fit.
"Americans do not bow to royalty. In my view, when the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded." Ann Althouse 2009
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We should recall the gargantuan effort that was required to return to the Jewish people thousands of children who had been hidden during World War II.
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Astronomers study 'gargantuan' Jupiter impact - An unseen comet or possibly an icy asteroid apparently crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere near the giant planet's south pole sometime during the last few days, creating a "gargantuan" blemish easily visible from Earth.
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And while yesterday's new measures are "gargantuan," they were "probably not the last of the federal government's initiatives to absorb the shocks that began with losses on subprime mortgages and have spread to every corner of the economy," the Times adds.
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Chez Papa, a small Paris chain serving food from France's southwest, where I ordered a "gargantuan" salad, ham covered and potato filled and a carafe of water for 10 euros, leaving 2.12 euros in my budget.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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Southern Union, a charity that transferred "gargantuan" amounts of money between the U.K. and
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Southern Union, a registered charity which transferred "gargantuan" amounts of money between the UK and Zimbabwe.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Researchers have predicted the existence of a new kind of gargantuan molecule, large enough to dwarf a virus, that looks weird and acts even weirder.
Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews 2010
spicolli commented on the word gargantuan
"You know, I've always liked that word... 'gargantuan'... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence." Kill Bill Vol. 2
June 14, 2009
bluedust commented on the word gargantuan
First time I heard this word was Kill Bill Vol. 2
February 3, 2012