Brobdingnagian
1. huge;
relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
• Pertains to noun:
Brobdingnag
• Derivationally related forms:
Brobdingnag
2. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
- huge government spending
- huge country estates
- huge popular demand for higher education
- a huge wave
- the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
- immense numbers of birds
- at vast (or immense) expense
- the vast reaches of outer space
- "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge
• Syn:
huge, immense, vast
• Similar to:
large, big
• Derivationally related forms:
vastness (for: vast), immenseness (for: immense), immensity (for: immense)
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