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gargantuan

adj
/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/UK/ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/CA/ɡaːˈɡæn.t͡ʃʉ.ən/

Etymology

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

  1. derived from garganta
  2. derived from Gargantua

Definitions

  1. Huge

    Huge; immense; tremendous.

    • Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
    • Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.

  2. Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of gargantuan.

    • Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.
    • Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA