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Brobdingnagian

[brob-ding-nag-ee-uh n]
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adjective

of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.

noun

an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
a being of tremendous size; giant.

Origin of Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnag + -ian
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Related Words for brobdingnagian

big, colossal, giant, huge, immense, mammoth, tremendous, behemoth, Bunyanesque, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, great, Herculean, hulking, humongous, jumbo, large, massive

Examples from the Web for brobdingnagian

Historical Examples of brobdingnagian

  • It is dirty, so much I will grant; and it is of a Brobdingnagian smell.

    Europe After 8:15

    H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

  • He had no difficulty in recognizing Susy's peculiarly Brobdingnagian school-girl hand.

    Clarence

    Bret Harte

  • The chirp is very loud, something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper.

  • The chirp is very loud: something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper.

  • The produce was Brobdingnagian, but worthless except to dig into the ground.

    The Dwelling House

    George Vivian Poore

British Dictionary definitions for brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian

adjective

gigantic; huge; immense

Word Origin for Brobdingnagian

C18: from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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Word Origin and History for brobdingnagian
adj.

"huge, immense, gigantic," 1728, from Brobdingnag + -ian.

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