gigantic
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gigantic
adj 1: 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: {gigantic}, {mammoth}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gigantic \Gi*gan"tic\, a. [L. gigas, -antis, giant. See
{Giant}.]
1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
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2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense;
tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic
wickedness. --Milton.
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When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Strom wind of the equinox. --Longfellow.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "gigantic":
Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean,
Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abysmal,
amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, big, boundless,
bulky, colossal, cosmic, cyclopean, egregious, elephantine,
enormous, epic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive,
extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, galactic, gangling, gangly,
gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gluttonous, heroic, high, huge,
hulking, humongous, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable,
immense, immoderate, incontinent, infinite, inordinate,
intemperate, jumbo, king-size, lank, lanky, large, leggy, lengthy,
long, long-legged, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, out of bounds, out of sight,
outrageous, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
overlarge, overmuch, overweening, prodigious, profound, rangy,
sizable, spacious, staggering, statuesque, steep, stiff, strapping,
stupendous, tall, thumping, thundering, titanic, too much,
towering, tremendous, unbridled, unconscionable, undue,
unreasonable, unrestrained, vast, voluminous, walloping, weighty,
whopping
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