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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

gigas

-antis

, giant. See

Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly;

as,

gigantic

deeds;

gigantic

wickedness.

Milton.

When descends on the Atlantic
The

gigantic

Strom wind of the equinox.

Longfellow.

Adj.

[L. giganticus.] Of extraordinary size; very large; huge; like a giant. A man of gigantic stature.

Enormous; very great or mighty; as gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.

Gigantical and gigantine, for gigantic, rarely or never used.