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gigantic adjective [ dʒʌɪˈɡantɪk ]

• of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.
• "a gigantic concrete tower"
Similar: huge, enormous, vast, extensive, expansive, broad, wide, very big/large, great, giant, massive, colossal, mammoth, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, boundless, immeasurable, limitless, infinite, cosmic, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial, mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic, whacking, whacking great, ginormous,
Opposite: tiny,
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘like or suited to a giant’): from Latin gigas, gigant- (see giant) + -ic.


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