gigantic
/dʒʌɪˈɡantɪk
/adjective
Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous: a gigantic concrete tower...
- What started as a small bonfire has grown to the size of a gigantic tip.
- There was a gigantic tower on the bar graph for the number of people who were sick on a Monday.
- I get confused between giant prawns, crayfish and langoustine, but these were gigantic.
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 ...- It's been a gigantically emotional day for me.
- 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
- walkround
- walk someone off their feet
- walk something back
- walk something off
- walk test
- walk the boards
- walk the plank
- walk the streets
- walk the walk (also walk the talk)
- walk the wards
- walk-through
- orthopnoea
- orthopnoeic
- orthopod
- orthopoxvirus
- orthoprax
- orthopraxis
- orthopraxy
- orthopsychiatric
- orthopsychiatrist
- orthopsychiatry
- orthopter
- Orthoptera
- orthopteran
- orthopterist