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单词 gigantic
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Definition of gigantic in English:

gigantic

adjective dʒʌɪˈɡantɪkdʒaɪˈɡæn(t)ɪk
  • Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

    a gigantic concrete tower
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What started as a small bonfire has grown to the size of a gigantic tip.
    • Yet the gigantic profits of the big banks would seem to suggest otherwise.
    • A gigantic greenhouse is now a ruined heap - a victim of the weekend's heavy snowfall.
    • The lake acts as a gigantic solar panel, and a ring of mountains retains the heat.
    • And thus, money was saved on the editing budget and a gigantic media star was born in the process.
    • I get confused between giant prawns, crayfish and langoustine, but these were gigantic.
    • The ground floor is a gigantic L-shaped open-plan dining room, kitchen and living room.
    • Finally, someone suggested a gigantic net be hung under the bridge to catch any who fell.
    • I had no other choice, though I'm sure it will turn out to be a gigantic mistake.
    • He suddenly tenses up as he tells me this gigantic bus has just cut them off.
    • Gas is transported in gigantic tankers and stored in tanks so cold that they create permafrost around them.
    • Over at the machinery section, farmers gazed longingly at some of the latest gigantic tractors.
    • Most of those wars would not be possible without the diligent efforts of the West's gigantic arms trade.
    • Animation is a genre that has taken gigantic strides in creativity and in the use of technology.
    • No ugly gigantic ramps will be needed to drive up to bus station level.
    • It looks like a gigantic version of a very cheap plastic Christmas tree.
    • His emblematic white mullet and gigantic cigar are reassuringly in place.
    • There was a gigantic tower on the bar graph for the number of people who were sick on a Monday.
    • The hunt for a house has been a gigantic part of my life for the last year so I'm bound to feel as if there's something missing.
    • I stepped out of the airport at 6.30 am and walked into what seemed to be a gigantic sauna.
    Synonyms
    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
    informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic
    British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous

Derivatives

  • gigantically

  • adverb dʒʌɪˈɡantɪk(ə)lidʒaɪˈɡæn(t)ək(ə)li
    • It's been a gigantically emotional day for me.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It made one feel very small, somehow, and yet part of something gigantically grand again.
      • After he had unlocked me he grabbed my left arm in one of his gigantically over-sized hands, and pulled me to my feet.
      • The odds were gigantically stacked against them.
      • Our enormous country is really a tiny principality, in which our leaders loom gigantically large in the quiet green landscape.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'like or suited to a giant'): from Latin gigas, gigant- (see giant) + -ic.

Rhymes

antic, Atlantic, corybantic, frantic, geomantic, mantic, necromantic, pedantic, romantic, semantic, sycophantic, transatlantic
 
 

Definition of gigantic in US English:

gigantic

adjectivedʒaɪˈɡæn(t)ɪkjīˈɡan(t)ik
  • Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

    a gigantic concrete tower
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Finally, someone suggested a gigantic net be hung under the bridge to catch any who fell.
    • I get confused between giant prawns, crayfish and langoustine, but these were gigantic.
    • What started as a small bonfire has grown to the size of a gigantic tip.
    • Gas is transported in gigantic tankers and stored in tanks so cold that they create permafrost around them.
    • There was a gigantic tower on the bar graph for the number of people who were sick on a Monday.
    • No ugly gigantic ramps will be needed to drive up to bus station level.
    • Yet the gigantic profits of the big banks would seem to suggest otherwise.
    • The ground floor is a gigantic L-shaped open-plan dining room, kitchen and living room.
    • It looks like a gigantic version of a very cheap plastic Christmas tree.
    • Most of those wars would not be possible without the diligent efforts of the West's gigantic arms trade.
    • The hunt for a house has been a gigantic part of my life for the last year so I'm bound to feel as if there's something missing.
    • The lake acts as a gigantic solar panel, and a ring of mountains retains the heat.
    • Animation is a genre that has taken gigantic strides in creativity and in the use of technology.
    • And thus, money was saved on the editing budget and a gigantic media star was born in the process.
    • A gigantic greenhouse is now a ruined heap - a victim of the weekend's heavy snowfall.
    • He suddenly tenses up as he tells me this gigantic bus has just cut them off.
    • His emblematic white mullet and gigantic cigar are reassuringly in place.
    • I had no other choice, though I'm sure it will turn out to be a gigantic mistake.
    • Over at the machinery section, farmers gazed longingly at some of the latest gigantic tractors.
    • I stepped out of the airport at 6.30 am and walked into what seemed to be a gigantic sauna.
    Synonyms
    huge, enormous, vast, extensive, expansive, broad, wide

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘like or suited to a giant’): from Latin gigas, gigant- (see giant) + -ic.

 
 
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