Gargantuan
adjective
Extremely large.
He ate a gargantuan meal before going to bed.
adjective
Extremely large.
He ate a gargantuan meal before going to bed.
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Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Amplifier
Use 'gargantuan' to highlight the exceptional size or scale of something, more than 'big' or 'large' would.
The library had a gargantuan collection of books.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Impact
'Gargantuan' often creates a strong visual impression, suggesting something is impressively large or overwhelming.
They stood before the gargantuan statue in awe.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Literal
Sometimes 'gargantuan' is used figuratively to describe non-physical things like tasks or achievements.
She had the gargantuan task of organizing the event singlehandedly.
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Black Holes, Blazars,...
Pretty much, you know, most of these black holes are going about the business of being black holes, eating things, doing the normal black hole things. But, there is a special class of them that's doing a little bit more. These are called quasars. They are gargantuan championship eaters
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
books as being the largest land predator on earth so this gargantuan skull must surely come from some prehistoric dinosaur a saber-toothed cat perhaps well actually this super giant is anything but extinct in fact they're increasing in number they're said to be
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The ferocious predatory...
a gargantuan river system flowed across the region from modern day Egypt to Morocco. The whole world at that time would look rather different to us. The continents had yet to assume their current positions. Extreme temperatures were common
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The otherworldly...
so being small gives animals a low energy requirement and an adaptive advantage. And yet, the sea is also the land of giants. Here, gargantuan squids can reach 18 meters long. Isopods scuttle around the sea floor like enormous wood lice.
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Is the world getting...
That would be a miracle, and progress is not a miracle but problem-solving. Problems are inevitable and solutions create new problems which have to be solved in their turn. The unsolved problems facing the world today are gargantuan,
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How to Find Joy in...
People often ask me what they can do to help address the climate crisis. But what they usually mean is what’s one quick, easy, simple thing they can do. Well, that particular ship has sailed. The climate challenge is gargantuan.
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Just How BIG are...
this gargantuan skull must surely come from some prehistoric dinosaur. a sabre-toothed cat perhaps. Well, actually, this super giant is anything but extinct. In fact, they're increasing in number.
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The Insect That Freezes...
some species though just can't help but defy convention remember the gargantuan bird eating cricket of the kalahari
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ONE HOUR Of Amazing...
humpbacks engulf hundreds of thousands of them in a single gargantuan mouth
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Magnificent Whale...
humpbacks engulf hundreds of thousands of them in a single gargantuan mouth
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Tina Brown
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Jose Ferreira
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Adam Lashinsky
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
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David Berman
American Musician
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Marty Stuart
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As big as the industry is now and as gargantuan and stretched out with as many buses and trucks as there are now, it is still a big old dysfunctional family in my mind.
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Mo Rocca
American Writer
If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.
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Jonathan Katz
American Comedian
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Lucio Tan
Filipino Businessman
While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education sector, it envisions that one day it will be able to train more teachers and provide much-needed facilities that will transform schools into more conducive learning environments.
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Tina Brown
American Editor
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.
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Jose Ferreira
American Businessman
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.
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Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as capital allocation for decades. Such gargantuan tasks could yet humiliate Tesla.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.
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David Berman
American Musician
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.
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Marty Stuart
American Musician
As big as the industry is now and as gargantuan and stretched out with as many buses and trucks as there are now, it is still a big old dysfunctional family in my mind.
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Mo Rocca
American Writer
If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.
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Jonathan Katz
American Comedian
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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