English-Thai Dictionary

gargantuan

ADJ มโหฬาร  มหึมา  ใหญ่โต  enormous huge immense tiny small ma-ho-ran

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GARGANTUAN

Gar *gan "tu *an, a. Etym: [From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais. ]

 

Defn: Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gargantuan

gar gan tu an |gärˈganCHo͞oən ɡɑrˈɡæntʃ (əw )ən | ▶adjective enormous: a gargantuan appetite. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534 ), + -an .

 

Oxford Dictionary

gargantuan

gargantuan |gɑːˈgantjʊən | ▶adjective enormous: a gargantuan appetite. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534 ), + -an .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

gargantuan

gargantuan adjective a gargantuan wedding cake: huge, enormous, vast, gigantic, very big, giant, massive, colossal, mammoth, immense, mighty, monumental, mountainous, titanic, towering, tremendous, elephantine, king-size (d ), economy-size (d ), prodigious; informal mega, monster, whopping, humongous, jumbo, ginormous. ANTONYMS tiny.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

gargantuan

gargantuan adjective a gargantuan wedding cake: enormous, extremely big, extremely large, massive, huge, colossal, vast, immense, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monstrous, towering, mammoth, prodigious, elephantine, mountainous, mighty, monumental, epic, king-size, king-sized, titanic, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial, hefty, weighty, bulky; informal whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, mega, monster, jumbo, hulking, bumper; Brit. informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous. ANTONYMS tiny.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gargantuan

gar gan tu an /ɡɑː r ɡǽn (t )ʃuən |-tjʊən /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗巨大な, とても大きい 〘Rabelais作 Gargantua および Pantagruel より 〙.