Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exceedingly large in size, extent, or amount, especially for its kind: synonym: enormous.
- adjective Very great in scope or importance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a giant; of extraordinary size or proportions; very large; huge; enormous.
- Pertaining to or suitable for a giant; characteristic of giants; immense in scale or degree.
- Synonyms Colossal, vast, immense, prodigious, mighty, ponderous, herculean, cyclopean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
- adjective Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very
large . - adjective In the manner of a
giant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Osages are so tall and robust as almost to warrant the application of the term gigantic: few of them appear to be under six feet, and many are above it.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
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In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last?"
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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For at such times, when he found his martial spirit waxing hot within him, he would prudently sally forth into the fields, and lugging out his trusty sabre, of full two flemish ells in length, would lay about him most lustily, decapitating cabbages by platoons — hewing down whole phalanxes of sunflowers, which he termed gigantic
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And then, the writing on the wall flashing in gigantic neon letters, they tried an end-run -- appealing to the BC Supreme Court to enjoin Braidwood from finding any misconduct on their part.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The Korean signs say Census 2010″ in gigantic letters.
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I could have done without the attempts to make the movie a "real" spy movie --- I'm talking about all the things that get blown up and swallowed in gigantic fireballs and about the realistic violence of the fistfights.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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I could have done without the attempts to make the movie a "real" spy movie --- I'm talking about all the things that get blown up and swallowed in gigantic fireballs and about the realistic violence of the fistfights.
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Nothing needs to be done in gigantic, multibillion dollar leaps.
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What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast?
BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill' 2010
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What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast?
BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill' 2010
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