Gargantuan

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gargantuan \Gar*gan"tu*an\ (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an
     allegorical hero of Rabelais.]
     Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage;
     enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gargantuan
       adj : of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
             [syn: {elephantine}, {giant}, {jumbo}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "Gargantuan":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal,
     amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky,
     colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic,
     giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, immeasurable, immense,
     infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty,
     monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown,
     prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic,
     towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty