gargantuan
adjective/ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən/
/ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən/
[usually before noun]- extremely large synonym enormous
- a gargantuan appetite/meal
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGargantuan is used with these nouns:- appetite
- proportion
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an.
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