English Explanatory Dictionary

gargantuan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Huge; immense; tremendous.
  2. Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
adj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of gargantuan.

Pronunciation

/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/ /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/ En-us-gargantuan.oga /ɡaːˈɡæn.t͡ʃʉ.ən/

Word forms

gargantuan more gargantuan most gargantuan

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”).

Synonyms

colossal enormous giant huge humongous immense ample big cosmic bodacious broad commodious considerable expansive good-sized full generous grand great hefty hench jumbo larger than life largifical leviathan liberal long massive mega- overlarge outsized oversize oversized prodigious roomy rotund sizeable spacious stonking substantial tall vast voluminous wide astronomic behemothic big fat boxcar Brobdingnagian bulky cyclopean Daniel Lambertish elephantine elephantic gargantuan giantesque gigantesque gigantic gigantuan (colloquial nonstandard))

Derived words

gargantuanism gargantuanly gargantuanness ginormagantuan hypergargantuan supergargantuan
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