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adjective
- 1. enormous: "a gargantuan appetite"
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adjective. uk / ɡɑːˈɡæn.tʃu.ən / us / ɡɑːrˈɡæn.tʃu.ən / Add to word list. very large: a problem of gargantuan proportions. a gargantuan appetite. Synonyms. elephantine formal. enormous. giant. huge. jumbo. vast. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount. big They live in a big house in the country.
: tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic, colossal. gargantuan waterfalls. Did you know? Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel Gargantua, the second part of a five-volume series about the giant and his son Pantagruel. All of the details of Gargantua's life befit a giant.
gar·gan·tu·an. (gär-găn′cho͞o-ən) adj. 1. Of immense size, extent, or quantity. See Synonyms at enormous. 2. Of exceedingly great scope or nature: a gargantuan effort. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Gargantuan definition: gigantic; enormous; colossal. See examples of GARGANTUAN used in a sentence.
adjective. us / ɡɑːrˈɡæn.tʃu.ən / uk / ɡɑːˈɡæn.tʃu.ən / Add to word list. very large: a problem of gargantuan proportions. a gargantuan appetite. Synonyms. elephantine formal. enormous. giant. huge. jumbo. vast. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount. big They live in a big house in the country.
The word gargantuan can refer to an object that's physically massive in size or it can describe something that you perceive, like a feeling or an expectation. For example, you might have a gargantuan misunderstanding with your best friend.
adjective. gigantic; enormous; colossal. a gargantuan task. SYNONYMS huge, mammoth, immense, vast, elephantine.
Definition of gargantuan adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Of exceedingly great scope or nature. A gargantuan effort. American Heritage. Synonyms: giant. elephantine. jumbo. titanic. massive. mammoth. gigantic. immense. colossal. vast. enormous. huge. whopping. walloping. tremendous. Antonyms: miniscule.
Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) gargantuan —— ’, by combining with a noun + ‑ed, as gargantuan-bellied, etc. 1619 His Gargantuan bellyed-Doublet with huge huge sleeves.
