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supergargantuan en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /suːpəɹˈɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From super- + gargantuan.

Meanings

1. (rare) Exceptionally gargantuan; extraordinarily large or great.
   • Recently a fairly young man was put in charge of the supergargantuan performances of Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera. 1940, Poul Anderson, Musical Courier 1940-12-01: Volume 122 Issue 11, Summy-Birchard Publishing Company, page 70:
   • The monstrous near-nude lady and gent who used, oddly enough, to advertise a clothing store, have fallen before the wreckers and have been replaced by two supergargantuan pop bottles separated, just as oddly, by a Niagara of a waterfall. 1958, Commonweal, Volume 68, Commonweal Publishing Corporation, page 326:
   • QUOTING LeRoy Prinz, dance director in chief for Paramount, the New York Herald Tribune says: ‘‘He contends that the supergargantuan musicals that have been rolling out of Hollywood will be replaced soon by new musicals of more intimate nature.” Glory be! 1938 April 30, Mabel Keefer, “Cinematic Soliloquy: Induced by Random Notes from the Little Scratch Pad of Mabel Keefer”, in Hollywood Spectator, Hollywood Spectator, Inc., page 15:
   • June 2010 appears relatively massive, with a slow streak ending on the 18th and giving way to an escalation of blockbusters - in what looks to be 15 days of supergargantuan box office. 2010 June 4, Michael Lynderey, “June 2010 Forecast”, in www.boxofficeprophets.com, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2021:
   • The Rand-type thinkman thinks only about death and how to inflict it on a supergargantuan scale. 1959, The Nation, Volume 188, J.H. Richards, page 60:

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