gargantuan

gar·gan·tu·an  (gär-gnch-n)

adj.

Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. See Synonyms at enormous.

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gargantuan

Adjective

huge or enormous [after Gargantua, a giant in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel]

USAGE: Some people think that gargantuan should only be used to describe things connected with food: a gargantuan meal; his gargantuan appetite.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

gargantuan - of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" elephantine, giant, jumbo 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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gargantuan

adjective huge, big, large, giant, massive, towering, vast, enormous, extensive, tremendous, immense, mega (slang) titanic, jumbo (informal) gigantic, monumental, monstrous, mammoth, colossal, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, elephantine, ginormous (informal) Brobdingnagian, humongous or humungous U.S. (slang) << OPPOSITE tiny

USAGE Some people think that gargantuan should only be used to describe things connected with food: a gargantuan meal; his gargantuan appetite. Nevertheless, the word is now widely used as a synonym of colossal or massive.