gargantuan

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/    美 /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/|/ɡaːˈɡæn.t͡ʃʉ.ən/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Huge; immense; tremendous.
    — Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
  2. Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite. obsolete

词形变化

more gargantuan comparative most gargantuan superlative Gargantuan alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
gargantuanism gargantuanly gargantuanness ginormagantuan hypergargantuan supergargantuan

词源

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).
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