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Brobdingnagian
Brob·ding·nag·i·an B0495200 (brŏb′dĭng-năg′ē-ən)adj. Immense; enormous. [After Brobdingnag, , a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]Brobdingnagian (ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnæɡɪən) adjgigantic; huge; immense[C18: from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]Brob•ding•nag•i•an (ˌbrɒb dɪŋˈnæg i ən) adj. of huge size; gigantic. [after the land of Brobdingnag in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)] Brobdingnagiana person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian.See also: SizeThesaurusAdj. | 1. | Brobdingnagian - huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag | | 2. | Brobdingnagian - unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Ingehuge, immense, vastbig, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
BrobdingnagianadjectiveOf extraordinary size and power:behemoth, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, 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.EncyclopediaSeeBrobdingnagBrobdingnagian
Synonyms for Brobdingnagianadj of extraordinary size and powerSynonyms- behemoth
- Bunyanesque
- colossal
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- herculean
- heroic
- huge
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- massy
- mastodonic
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- prodigious
- pythonic
- stupendous
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- walloping
- whopping
Synonyms for Brobdingnagianadj unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scopeSynonymsRelated Words |