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Gargantuan

Gar-gan′tu-an

(?; 135)

,

Adj.

[From

Gargantua

, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.]

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Definition 2024

gargantuan

gargantuan

English

Adjective

gargantuan ‎(comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)

(obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Huge; immense; tremendous.
Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.

Synonyms

colossal
enormous
giant
huge
humongous, humungous
immense
See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

Derived terms

Translations

of the giant Gargantua or his appetite

French: gargantuesque (fr)
Italian: gargantuesco (it)
Japanese: ガルガンチュワの ‎(Garuganchuwa no)

Polish: gargantuiczny
Romanian: gargantuesc

huge

Dutch: immens (nl)
Estonian: hiiglaslik, hiigelsuur
Finnish: valtava (fi), jättiläismäinen (fi), jättimäinen (fi), suunnaton (fi)
French: gargantuesque (fr)
Hungarian: rettentő nagy (hu), óriási (hu)
Indonesian: besar (id), raksasa (id), luar biasa
Italian: gigantesco (it), gargantuesco (it)
Japanese: 巨大な ‎(きょだいな, kyodaina), 膨大な ‎(ぼうだいな, bōdaina), 夥しい ‎(おびただしい, obitadashī)

Kannada: ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ (kn) ‎(br̥hadākārada), ದೈತ್ಯಾಕಾರದ (kn) ‎(daityākārada), ವಿಪರೀತ (kn) ‎(viparīta), ದೊಡ್ಡ (kn) ‎(doḍḍa), ರಾಕ್ಷಸಾಕಾರದ (kn) ‎(rākṣasākārada)
Malayalam: വളരെ വലിയ ‎(vaḷare valiya)
Polish: gigantyczny (pl), gargantuiczny
Romanian: imens (ro), enorm (ro), uriaș (ro), colosal (ro)
Russian: гига́нтский (ru) ‎(gigántskij)
Swedish: gigantisk (sv), enorm (sv)

References

(etymology) Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))