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GARGANTUAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
jumbo shrimp
Synonyms:
elephantine; gargantuan; giant; jumbo
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
Gargantua (a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name)