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Brobdingnagian
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Brob·ding·nag·i·an  (brbdng-ng-n)
adj.
Immense; enormous.

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

Brobdingnagian [ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnægɪən]
adj
gigantic; huge; immense
[from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]

Brobdingnagian
a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian.
See also: Size
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Adj.1.Brobdingnagian - huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
2.BrobdingnagianBrobdingnagian - 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
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"


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The second path leads to an explanation of how a government that raised hundreds of thousands of troops and built a first-rate navy to defeat the Confederacy could then revert to a Lilliputian among the Brobdingnagians of world politics, an explanation embodied in a revised narrative of American diplomatic history from 1865 to the close of Roosevelt's presidency.
The second path leads to an explanation of how a government that raised hundreds of thousands of troops and built a first-rate navy to defeat the Confederacy could then revert to a Lilliputian among the Brobdingnagians of world politics, an explanation embodied in a revised narrative of American diplomatic history from 1865 to the close of Roosevelt's presidency.
 
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