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Brobdingnagian

adjective

(Spelt often Brobdignagian)

Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag.

Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope. Synonyms: huge, immense, vast. "Huge country estates" , "Huge popular demand for higher education" , "A huge wave" , "The Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains" , "Immense numbers of birds" , "At vast (or immense) expense" , "The vast reaches of outer space" , "The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"

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"Brobdingnagian" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been set by some freak of the farmer-architect's heavy fancy as a coping on the top of the big stone shaft. From thence, as Lady Hannah Wrynche had said in one of her descriptive letters, dated from "My Headquarters at the Seat of War," it dominated the landscape as a Brobdingnagian stone mushroom ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... plain; while in the foreground every window of the house was ablaze, like some factory on a busy night shift. She could hear the click of the telegraph instruments already reporting the details of the action as cheerfully as Brobdingnagian crickets in their peaceful surroundings. Then out of the shadows ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... give up his business and play the position for you? Maybe you can persuade Charlie Brickley, a fair sort of dropkicker, to quit coaching Hopkins, and kick a few goals for old Bannister! I get you, Coach—you want a fellow about the size of the Lusitania, made of structural steel, a Brobdingnagian Colossus who will guarantee to advance the ball fifteen yards per ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

Words linked to "Brobdingnagian" : immense, Brobdingnag, big, large, vast