giganticadj.
/dʒʌɪˈɡantɪk/, U.S. /dʒaɪˈɡæn(t)ɪk/ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of fabulous or mythical race of humans > of or relating to giant
etenishOE
giantly1561
giantlike1571
gigantic1612
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 1 Thou Genius of the place..Which liuedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood, Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 659 On each hand slaughter and gigantic deeds. View more context for this quotation
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 472 There are some persons of that wicked and Gigantick disposition..that..would be ready to say with Polyphemus, in Homer [etc.].
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 178 He was the son of Uricus, and of the gigantic race.
2. Of persons or their stature: Having the proportions of a giant; resembling a giant in size, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and broad
massya1382
stout1390
burlyc1400
corporalc1475
massive1485
poisy1538
big-made1566
chopping1566
grossa1578
large-bodied1577
weighty1581
burly-boned1590
mastya1593
lumbering1593
giantisha1635
gigantic1651
mastiff1668
large-made1725
lusty1777
bowerly1794
squelching1854
beef to the heel(s)1867
hefty1867
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvii. 386 The Fairies..have their enchanted Castles, and..Gigantique Ghosts.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. i. 9 Jeffery..had many squabbles with the King's gigantic porter.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 172 The gigantic bones found in many burial places here, give room to believe, that the former inhabitants were of larger size than the present.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 284 One who had never seen the Black Douglas, must have known him by his swart complexion, his gigantic frame [etc.].
3. Hence of things material or immaterial, actions, etc.: Greatly exceeding ordinary dimensions; huge, enormous.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great
swappingc1440
bumping1566
thumping1576
swingeinga1592
knocking1598
gigantical1604
gigantine1605
gigantean1611
gigantal?1614
thundering1618
whoppinga1625
humming1654
rapping1657
whisking1673
threshing1707
sousing1735
nation1765
heroic1785
runaway1790
spanking1791
gigantic1797
whacking1797
cracking1834
ringing1834
bouncing1842
walloping1847
stavingc1850
banging1864
howling1865
whooping1866
smacking1888
God almighty1913
Christ almighty1961
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge
unmeeteOE
unmeetlyOE
hugea1275
hideousc1330
infinitec1385
unmeasureda1398
unmeasurablec1405
hugyc1420
immeasurable1440
ingentc1450
unmeetlyc1450
giant1480
immense1490
monstrous?a1513
unmeasurely1513
hugeousa1529
unportable1537
enormous1544
enormc1560
giantly1561
immensible1579
rouncival1582
dismeasured1584
vast1585
immeasured1590
gargantuan1596
omnipotent1596
colossian1601
immane1601
prodigious1601
Polyphemian1602
Titanian1603
titanical1603
gigantical1604
immensive1604
gigantine1605
colossic1607
gigantean1611
Gogmagotical1612
gigantal?1614
Babylonian1617
leviathan1625
titanic1628
elephantine1631
gigantive1638
colossean1644
decumanal1652
immensurate1654
gigant1658
decuman1659
colossal1664
abnormous1710
Brobdingnagian1728
Brobdingnag1731
Pantagruelian1737
heroic1785
Patagonian1786
seven-league1787
Titan1793
gigantic1797
seven-leagued1799
mammoth1801
dimensionless1813
tremendous1813
gigantesque1821
monster1837
titanesque1838
monstre1840
giantlike1847
leviathanic1848
pythonic1851
Babylonic1853
supercolossal1871
giantesque1909
behemothian1910
supergiant1919
ginormous1942
big-ass1945
Ozymandian1961
fuck-off1962
mega1968
humongous1970
monstro1970
big-assed1972
big-arsed1996
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 83 Vivaldi pointed out to Ellena the gigantic Velino in the north.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod Introd. 45 The evils complained of by these writers..have in the present day attained to a gigantic stature.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 479 The Gigantic Crane is an inhabitant of Bengal and Calcutta.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 494 Facing this gigantic telescope.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 315 The ancestors of the gigantic quadrupeds, which all foreigners now class among the chief wonders of London, were brought from the marshes of Walcheren.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 The gigantic spirit of enterprise which was kindled in England and Spain.
1878 E. White Life in Christ (ed. 3) v. xxviii. 468 The hell believed in is thought too dreadful for all except gigantic offenders.
Derivatives
giˈganticness n.
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1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
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