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[ adjective ] so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth

Synonyms

mammoth

Examples

"a gigantic redwood" "gigantic disappointment" "a mammoth ship" "a mammoth multinational corporation"

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

Show her the new swimming_pool and she would say , slapping her ankle , `` I suppose this must be where you breed your gigantic mosquitoes '' .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

`` The human ego being what it is '' , I put_in , `` science_fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a_thousand larger solar_systems than ours must look_like gigantic tube-nosed_fruit_bats .

Related terms

large

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