'Gargantuan' definitions:
Definition of 'gargantuan'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]
Definition of 'Gargantuan'
From: GCIDE
- Gargantuan \Gar*gan"tu*an\ (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Gargantuan'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysmal,
- amplitudinous,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- awesome,
- boundless,
- Brobdingnagian,
- bulky,
- colossal,
- cosmic,
- Cyclopean,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- epic,
- extensive,
- galactic,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- Homeric,
- huge,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- infinite,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- large,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- outsize,
- overgrown,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- sizable,
- spacious,
- stupendous,
- titanic,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- vast,
- voluminous,
- weighty