Brobdingnagian (redirected from Brobdingnagians)

Brob·ding·nag·i·an  (brbdng-ng-n)

adj.

Immense; enormous.

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[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]

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Brobdingnagian

a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian.

See also: Size

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	Brobdingnagian - huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
	2.	Brobdingnagian - 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 huge, immense, vast big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"