Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giant-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Appropriate to a giant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic to, resembling, or relating to a
giant or giants;giantlike . - adverb In a
giant orgigantic manner;gigantically ;enormously ;immensely .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No, it just keeps stepping along, giantly or otherwise.
We're Not There Yet, But Health-Care Legislation Takes Giant Step Forward 2009
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They started talking about weaves, I didn't really understand, and suddenly felt very awkward and giantly ignorant white-girlish.
blog: Do I Attract the Crazy, or does the Crazy Attract me? 2008
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They started talking about weaves, I didn't really understand, and suddenly felt very awkward and giantly ignorant white-girlish.
blog: November 2008 2008
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"Score one for giantly imagination," Marrow remarked.
Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994
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They must have been boys of fourteen or fifteen; but I remember them as of giantly stature and vast age.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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This chieftain, as I have before noted, was a very giantly man, and was clad in a coarse blue coat, strapped round the waist with a leathern belt, which caused the enormous skirts and pockets to set off with a very warlike sweep.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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The trusty sword of Peter Stuyvesant almost leaped from its scabbard, when he received missives from Mynheer Beekman, informing him of the swaggering menaces of the bully Fendall; and as to the giantly warriors of the
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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Governor Risingh, not withstanding his giantly condition, was, as I have hinted, a man of craft.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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I spend the next 5 minutes overcoming my phobia of giantly jockish assholes and picture myself spending eternity with this man, albeit in synagogue, a place I rarely to never make it to.
Thoughts on the Superbowl Michelle Collins 2006
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I spend the next 5 minutes overcoming my phobia of giantly jockish assholes and picture myself spending eternity with this man, albeit in synagogue, a place I rarely to never make it to.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michelle Collins 2006
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