gargantuan
adjective
[ ɡɑːˈɡantjʊən ]
• enormous.
• "a gargantuan appetite"
Similar:
enormous,
extremely big,
extremely large,
massive,
huge,
colossal,
vast,
immense,
cosmic,
tremendous,
gigantic,
giant,
monstrous,
towering,
mammoth,
prodigious,
elephantine,
mountainous,
mighty,
monumental,
epic,
king-size,
king-sized,
titanic,
Herculean,
Brobdingnagian,
substantial,
hefty,
weighty,
bulky,
whopping,
whopping great,
thumping,
thumping great,
humongous,
mega,
monster,
jumbo,
hulking,
bumper,
whacking,
whacking great,
ginormous,
Origin:
late 16th century: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an.
