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Definition of gargantuan in English: gargantuanadjectiveɡɑːˈɡantjʊənɡɑrˈɡæn(t)ʃ(u)ən Enormous. Example sentencesExamples - You can only imagine what his total might have been if he'd had, say, his appetite for gargantuan scores.
- My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened.
- The To Do List has grown to gargantuan size and I'm not even making a dent in it at the moment.
- It's a gargantuan challenge, but the possibility of continuing with a remote, technocratic Europe died this week.
- This is a gargantuan pub with a vast forecourt and car park in front, a real restaurant and lots of nooks and crannies to get lost in.
- As befits a man with a gargantuan appetite, he chose the menu himself.
- These days the manufacturer bears little resemblance to the gargantuan outfit it once was.
- She sat at the table in front of us and proceeded to order an enormous earthenware jug of red wine and a gargantuan bowl of spaghetti with clam sauce.
- From her gargantuan handbag, she produced five paper plates and a jar of Marmite.
- They long for gargantuan TVs, pool tables and funky barka loungers to keep them happy.
- A whole new sector with a gargantuan appetite for power was emerging.
- That, or its members knowingly turned a blind eye to the gargantuan scale of pilfering going on under their noses.
- The everyday challenges of the fifth decade assume gargantuan dimensions in an industry that prizes youth.
- His house is a biscuit-free zone and he has replaced such sugary temptations with gargantuan bowls of fruit for him and his family to snack on.
- Critics say Napa Valley has an ego, but what it really has is a gargantuan appetite for life.
- He's at the center of a gargantuan deal that will determine how old and new media companies will evolve.
- However, for those of us for whom it also is work, it is a stamina and endurance challenge of gargantuan proportions.
- On the plus side, while the menu was pretty limited, it was reasonably priced and the quantities were gargantuan.
- Being skinny, I have never had to worry about the side effects of such a gargantuan appetite.
- His vulgar displays of vanity while in the house were truly gargantuan in proportion.
Synonyms enormous, extremely big, extremely large, massive, huge, colossal, vast, immense, cosmic, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monstrous, towering, mammoth, prodigious, elephantine, mountainous, mighty, monumental, epic, king-size, king-sized, titanic, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial, hefty, weighty, bulky informal whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, mega, monster, jumbo, hulking, bumper British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous
Origin Late 16th century: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an. Gargantua is the name of a large-mouthed giant with a huge and insatiable appetite from the book of the same name, published in 1534, by the French satirical writer Rabelais. In one episode Gargantua accidentally swallows six pilgrims while eating a salad. Gargantuan, meaning ‘enormous or gigantic’, comes from the name of Rabelais' colossal guzzler.
Definition of gargantuan in US English: gargantuanadjectiveɡɑrˈɡæn(t)ʃ(u)ənɡärˈɡan(t)SH(o͞o)ən Enormous. Example sentencesExamples - He's at the center of a gargantuan deal that will determine how old and new media companies will evolve.
- This is a gargantuan pub with a vast forecourt and car park in front, a real restaurant and lots of nooks and crannies to get lost in.
- You can only imagine what his total might have been if he'd had, say, his appetite for gargantuan scores.
- That, or its members knowingly turned a blind eye to the gargantuan scale of pilfering going on under their noses.
- His house is a biscuit-free zone and he has replaced such sugary temptations with gargantuan bowls of fruit for him and his family to snack on.
- They long for gargantuan TVs, pool tables and funky barka loungers to keep them happy.
- She sat at the table in front of us and proceeded to order an enormous earthenware jug of red wine and a gargantuan bowl of spaghetti with clam sauce.
- It's a gargantuan challenge, but the possibility of continuing with a remote, technocratic Europe died this week.
- On the plus side, while the menu was pretty limited, it was reasonably priced and the quantities were gargantuan.
- A whole new sector with a gargantuan appetite for power was emerging.
- The To Do List has grown to gargantuan size and I'm not even making a dent in it at the moment.
- Critics say Napa Valley has an ego, but what it really has is a gargantuan appetite for life.
- However, for those of us for whom it also is work, it is a stamina and endurance challenge of gargantuan proportions.
- My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened.
- These days the manufacturer bears little resemblance to the gargantuan outfit it once was.
- As befits a man with a gargantuan appetite, he chose the menu himself.
- The everyday challenges of the fifth decade assume gargantuan dimensions in an industry that prizes youth.
- His vulgar displays of vanity while in the house were truly gargantuan in proportion.
- Being skinny, I have never had to worry about the side effects of such a gargantuan appetite.
- From her gargantuan handbag, she produced five paper plates and a jar of Marmite.
Synonyms enormous, extremely big, extremely large, massive, huge, colossal, vast, immense, cosmic, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monstrous, towering, mammoth, prodigious, elephantine, mountainous, mighty, monumental, epic, king-size, king-sized, titanic, herculean, brobdingnagian, substantial, hefty, weighty, bulky
Origin Late 16th century: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an. |