gargantuan

Meaning

1. Huge; immense; tremendous.
2. (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

Synonyms

huge

enormous

gigantic

colossal

immense

humongous

great

gross

swingeing

elephantine

tremendous

galactic

jumbo

mammoth

🦣

massive

giant

monstrous

monumental

prodigious

mammonic

banging

beyond measure

cavernous

heroic

howling

imposing

limitless

monster

oceanic

plumping

stupendous

sublime

titanic

vast

walloping

vasty

great big

astronomical

Translations

gargantuesque

gigantesco

riesig

gigantesco

gigante

enorm

kolossaal

τεράστιος

gigantesque

immens

gigantisch

reusachtig

ungeheuer

descomunal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/

Etymology

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).