Definitions

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  • adjective Huge; very large.
  • adjective Daunting.
  • adjective Greatly important.

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Examples

  • Her beauty was now marred by an expression of anger and disgust with which she regarded a behemothian man who was propped up in the middle of her bed.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

  • Her beauty was now marred by an expression of anger and disgust with which she regarded a behemothian man who was propped up in the middle of her bed.

    Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

  • Gravely he lifted a behemothian paw, and gravely the young man shook it.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • Down the street came a girl and a dog, rather a small girl and quite a behemothian dog.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • a shade more behemothian, the thing would have approached a parody on one's settled idea of a girl and a dog.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

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