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for gargantuan
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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) 3.0 (2006) :
gargantuan
adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo
shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant,
jumbo]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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
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