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1. n охота на китов; китобойный промысел2. a китобойный3. a разг. громадный4. n амер. сл. порка; избиениеСинонимический ряд:1. huge (adj.) Antaean; behemothic; Brobdingnagian; Bunyanesque; colossal; cyclopean; dinosauric; elephantine; enormous; gargantuan; giant; gigantean; gigantesque; gigantic; Herculean; heroic; huge; immense; jumbo; leviathan; lusty; mammoth; massive; massy; mastodonic; mighty; monster; monstrous; monumental; mountainous2. whipping (verb) flagellating; flogging; hiding; lashing; lathering; scourging; striping; thrashing; whipping -
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1. n разг. избиение2. n разг. поражение3. a разг. необычайный; непревзойдённый4. a разг. колоссальный, огромный, чудовищныйСинонимический ряд:1. huge (adj.) Antaean; behemothic; Brobdingnagian; Bunyanesque; colossal; cyclopean; dinosauric; elephantine; enormous; gargantuan; giant; gigantean; gigantesque; gigantic; Herculean; heroic; huge; immense; jumbo; leviathan; lusty; mammoth; massive; massy; mastodonic; mighty; monster; monstrous; monumental; mountainous2. beating (verb) basting; battering; beating; belaboring; buffeting; drubbing; hammering; lambasting; lamming; pasting; pelting; pounding; pummeling; thrashing; walloping3. very (other) awfully; damned; dreadfully; eminently; exceedingly; exceptionally; extremely; greatly; highly; hugely; insatiably; mightily; mighty; mortally; most; much; notably; parlous; pesky; rattling; remarkably; right; snapping; so; spanking; staving; strikingly; super; surpassingly; very
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Gargantuan — Gar*gan tu*an (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
gargantuan — index prodigious (enormous) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
gargantuan — 1590s, from Gargantua, large mouthed giant in Rabelais novels, supposedly from Sp./Port. garganta gullet, throat, which is from the same imitative root as GARGLE (Cf. gargle) … Etymology dictionary
gargantuan — *huge, vast, immense, enormous, elephantine, mammoth, giant, gigantic, gigantean, colossal, Herculean, cyclopean, titanic, Brobdingnagian … New Dictionary of Synonyms
gargantuan — [adj] very large big, colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, heavyweight, huge, humongous, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, supercolossal*, super duper*, titanic, towering,… … New thesaurus
gargantuan — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ enormous. ORIGIN from Gargantua, a voracious giant in Rabelais book of the same name (1534) … English terms dictionary
gargantuan — [gär gan′cho͞o ən] adj. [after GARGANTUA] enormous; gigantic … English World dictionary
gargantuan — [[t]gɑː(r)gæ̱ntʃuən[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (emphasis) If you say that something is gargantuan, you are emphasizing that it is very large. [WRITTEN] ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions. ...a gargantuan corruption scandal. Syn: huge … English dictionary
gargantuan — gar|gan|tu|an [ga:ˈgæntʃuən US ga:r ] adj written [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Gargantua, name of a giant in the book Gargantua (1534) by François Rabelais] extremely large = ↑gigantic ▪ a meal of gargantuan proportions ▪ gargantuan task … Dictionary of contemporary English
gargantuan — adjective Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Gargantua Date: 1596 tremendous in size, volume, or degree ; gigantic, colossal < gargantuan waterfalls > … New Collegiate Dictionary
gargantuan — /gahr gan chooh euhn/, adj. gigantic; enormous; colossal: a gargantuan task. [1585 95; GARGANTU(A) + AN] Syn. huge, mammoth, immense, vast, elephantine. * * * … Universalium