gargantuan

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Definition of gargantuan in English Turkish dictionary

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Definition of gargantuan in English English dictionary

Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc

Huge; immense; tremendous

Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite

emphasis If you say that something is gargantuan, you are emphasizing that it is very large. a marketing event of gargantuan proportions. a gargantuan corruption scandal. = huge, colossal. extremely large = gigantic (Gargantua, name of a giant in the book Gargantua (1534) by François Rabelais)

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate

{s} enormous, immense, huge, gigantic

Huge

of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"

Related Terms

gargantuan appetite

immense appetite

Hyphenation

gar·gan·tu·an

Turkish pronunciation

gärgänçuın

Synonyms

colossal, enormous, giant, huge, humongous, humungous, immense, big, elephantine, gigantic, heavyweight, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, massive

Antonyms

little, miniscule, small, tiny

Pronunciation

/gärˈganʧo͞oən/ /ɡɑːrˈɡænʧuːən/

Etymology

[ -w&n ] (adjective.) 1596. From Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. From Garagantesi, from Egyptian