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ginormous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /dʒaɪˈnɔɹməs/ (General-American)
• /dʒaɪˈnɔːməs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of gi(gantic) + (e)normous. Originally 1940s military slang.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Very large.
   • “Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.” 2019, Green Bank Observatory, Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist:
   • Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places. 1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World: A Disney Girls Super Special, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 20:
   • This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron. 1986, Ron Friedman, The Transformers: The Movie, spoken by Jazz:
   • Visitors from Spain, Sheffield, the US, South Korea and Australia paused beside the tree to pay their respects. “It’s ginormous!” said Carter Jackson, eight, from Sheffield. “It’s a really beautiful tree and it’s sad it’s died.” 2026 June 17, Patrick Barkham, “‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

superginormous · ginormagantuan · ginormously · ginormousness

Relateds

hunormous · gigantuan

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

Translations (13)

fr gigantesque (very large) · es gigantesco (very large) · fr colossal (very large) · pl ogromniasty (very large) · de gigantisch (very large) · fr énorme (very large) · de riesig (very large) · fr méga (very large) · it enorme (very large) · pt ginorme (very large) · de elefantös (very large) · es giganteo (very large) · es descomunal (very large)