Brobdingnagian
brob·ding·na·gian
adjective
1.
huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of 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
Origin
From Brobdingnag + -ian, fictional country inhabited by giants in Gulliver's Travels.
Phrases
- Brobdingnagian vision
Related words
Pertaining to
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