gargantuan

Meanings

• adjective

  Extremely large in size or quantity; colossal.

  - "The gargantuan blue whale is the largest animal on Earth."
  - "The gargantuan pile of leaves was raked up for the autumn festival."

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Pronunciation

1. /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/
   
   
   
   Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7438356"

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Synonyms

colossal , enormous , giant , huge , humongous , immense

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with gargantuan
harbinger , stranger , ranger , anger , danger , arranger

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Variants

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gargantuan

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Etymology

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From the name of a giant in the Roman poet Apuleius's Metamorphoses.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'gargantuan' is derived from the name of a giant in the Roman poet Apuleius's Metamorphoses.

2. The largest known blue whale measured 107.6 feet (32.8 meters) long and weighed an estimated 208,000 pounds (94,370 kilograms).

3. The largest known gargantuan pumpkin weighed 2,624.6 pounds (1,190.3 kilograms).

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1. colossal: Synonym of gargantuan, meaning extremely large.

2. giant: A being of enormous size, often mythological or legendary.

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Culture

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In literature, the term 'gargantuan' is often used to describe something of immense size or scale. It has been used in various works of fiction, including Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

How to Memorize "gargantuan"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a giant blue whale or a giant pile of leaves to understand the meaning of gargantuan.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with something extremely large or colossal.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym GIGANTIC to remember the meaning: 'G' for 'giant', 'I' for 'immense', 'G' for 'gigantic', 'A' for 'enormous', 'N' for 'notable', 'T' for 'tremendous', and 'I' for 'incredible'.

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