Brobdingnagian

[brob-ding-nag-ee-uhn]

adjective

1. of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.

noun

1. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.

2. a being of tremendous size; giant.

Brobdingnagian

/ ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnæɡɪən /

adjective

1. gigantic; huge; immense

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brobdingnagian¹

First recorded in 1725–30; Brobdingnag + -ian

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brobdingnagian¹

C18: from Brobdingnag , an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Example Sentences

In working on a series of Brobdingnagian sculptures called “Family Trees” that featured photos of her relatives, she said she came to understand her identity was half Czech and half American.

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They included a large Robinson Crusoe umbrella in Des Moines; a Brobdingnagian electric plug in Oberlin, Ohio; and an immense rubber stamp in Cleveland.

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One register is busy, surrealistic, grotesque: a Brobdingnagian nude woman swarmed with small figures in chaotic sexual poses; mummy-like forms, zippers up their thorax; body parts free-floating or severed; truncheons; bizarre machinery.

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Covering the model’s top half was a shaggy vest of brightly dyed shearling; encasing his feet was a pair of blunt-toed loafers adorned with the Brobdingnagian buckles Mr. Anderson refers to as shoe jewelry.

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He’s a businessman — a billboard tycoon — with a Brobdingnagian mansion and a golf habit.

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