gargantuan

adjective

gar·gan·tuan gär-ˈgan(t)-sh(ə-)wən

often capitalized

Synonyms of gargantuan next

: tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic, colossal

gargantuan waterfalls

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Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel Gargantua, the second part of a five-volume series about the giant and his son Pantagruel. All of the details of Gargantua's life befit a giant. He rides a colossal mare whose tail switches so violently that it fells the entire forest of Orleans. He has an enormous appetite, such that in one incident he inadvertently swallows five pilgrims while eating a salad. The scale of everything connected with Gargantua led to the adjective gargantuan, which since William Shakespeare's time has been used for anything of tremendous size or volume.

Examples of gargantuan in a Sentence

a creature of gargantuan proportions people seem to be buying ever more gargantuan SUVs these days

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Trump looks at the Saudi crown prince and sees a high net-worth individual who could throw a gargantuan amount of petrodollars into the American economy. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025 For a woman who once faced the gargantuan challenge of emerging from the shadow of an iconic mother (The Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland), Liza Minnelli has done an incredible job securing a solid legacy as an entertainer. —

Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025 The intrigue: This isn't the first time the Snyders have had issues offloading a gargantuan estate. —

Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025 Every day hundreds of trucks haul corn from heartland farms to the facility, where the crop is broken down into starches and liquids before trains with gargantuan tanks ship it out to the rest of the world. —

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