gigantuan en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/
Etymology
Conflation or blend of gigantic + gargantuan.
Meanings
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(colloquial, nonstandard) Very large.
To accomplish this gigantuan task, cells appear to chunk the DNA components into increasingly larger units as shown in Fig. 2.9, first into nucleosmes^([sic]) which are “strung” together into 11 nm-diameter “beads-on-a-string” form.
2012 April 5, Sungchul Ji, Molecular Theory of the Living Cell: Concepts, Molecular Mechanisms, and Biomedical Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 54:At minimum, print out each "reg" 5-tuple separately, instead of one gigantuan string.
1999 September 3, Philip Brown, “driver: how to map specific IOspace address?”, in comp.unix.solaris (Usenet):Because it was build in the fourties^([sic]) it is steem^([sic]) powered and with its gigantuan pipe it has to have 12 sweeps working 24 hours per day.
2003 December 29, Kristian Lahdensuo, “World's largest train”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more gigantuan | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most gigantuan | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Relateds
Synonyms
long · mega- · Brobdingnagian · cosmic · gigantesque · titanic · sizeable · generous · outsized · spacious · colossal · monumental · astronomic · overlarge · mammoth · stonking · pyramidal · substantial · leviathan · broad · bulky · immense · ample · grand · prodigious · big fat · elephantine · gigantuan (colloquial · immane · mahoosive · elephantic · pantagruelian · whopping · rotund · humongous · tremendous · largifical · monstrous · boxcar · jumbo · oversized · bodacious · voluminous · hench · nonstandard)) · ginormous · hefty · huge · giant · enormous · giantesque · good-sized · larger than life · cyclopean · yuge · behemothic · roomy · massive · honkin' · big · full · supersized · Pythonic · hunormous · exceeding · commodious · super- · vast · stupendous · liberal · mountainous · considerable · gigantic · great big · oversize · gargantuan · wide · expansive · Daniel Lambertish · hulking · tall · great · mastodonic