Definitions
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- adjective
Huge ; verylarge . - adjective
Daunting . - adjective Greatly
important .
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Examples
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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
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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
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Gravely he lifted a behemothian paw, and gravely the young man shook it.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Down the street came a girl and a dog, rather a small girl and quite a behemothian dog.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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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
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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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