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Definition of gigantic in English: giganticadjective 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
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: giganticadjectivedʒaɪˈɡæn(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. |