gigantesque
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gi·gan·tesque
(jī′găn-tĕsk′)adj.
Of enormous size or magnitude; huge.
[French, from Italian gigantesco, from gigante, giant, from Latin gigās, gigant-; see giant.]
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gigantesque
(ˌdʒaɪɡænˈtɛsk)adj
another word for gigantic2
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gi•gan•tesque
(ˌdʒaɪ gænˈtɛsk)adj.
gigantic.
[1815–25; < French]
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gigantesque
adjectiveOf extraordinary size and power:
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.
Informal: walloping.
Slang: whopping.
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