Gigantic

3 definitions found

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

  Gigantic \Gi*gan"tic\, a. [L. gigas, -antis, giant. See
     {Giant}.]
     1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
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     2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense;


        tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic
        wickedness. --Milton.
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              When descends on the Atlantic
              The gigantic
              Strom wind of the equinox.            --Longfellow.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gigantic
       adj : so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or
             mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic
             disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth
             multinational corporation" [syn: {mammoth}]

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

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "gigantic":
     Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean,
     Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abysmal,
     amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, big, boundless,
     bulky, colossal, cosmic, cyclopean, egregious, elephantine,
     enormous, epic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extensive,
     extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, galactic, gangling, gangly,
     gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gluttonous, heroic, high, huge,
     hulking, humongous, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immeasurable,
     immense, immoderate, incontinent, infinite, inordinate,
     intemperate, jumbo, king-size, lank, lanky, large, leggy, lengthy,
     long, long-legged, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster,
     monstrous, monumental, mountainous, out of bounds, out of sight,
     outrageous, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
     overlarge, overmuch, overweening, prodigious, profound, rangy,
     sizable, spacious, staggering, statuesque, steep, stiff, strapping,
     stupendous, tall, thumping, thundering, titanic, too much,
     towering, tremendous, unbridled, unconscionable, undue,
     unreasonable, unrestrained, vast, voluminous, walloping, weighty,
     whopping