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gigantically, adv.|dʒaɪˈgæntɪkəlɪ| [f. gigantical a. + -ly2.] In a gigantic manner or degree; after the manner or proportions of a giant; enormously.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. §3. 62 Though this monster..strut and stalk so gigantically. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 509 The fountains of barbarous and gigantically daring impiety. 1845[Miss J. Robinson] Whitehall xxxviii. 260 A gigantically tall porter. 1852J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 375 You do not habitually think thus gigantically of angels. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 271 [He] felt so gigantically good-natured that he could not keep his face sober. 1870Daily News 13 Dec., Prince Edward—our Guardsman—loomed almost gigantically through the fog on the morning of Inkermann. |