Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a
country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels."]
Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant.
[Spelt often Brobdignagian.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brobdingnagian
adj 1: huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country
of Brobdingnag
2: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "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"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge,
immense, vast]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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