gargantuan
Adjective Satellite
- of great mass; huge and bulky
Adj
- Huge; immense; tremendous.
- Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
elephantine, giant, jumbo, Brobdingnagian, Daniel Lambertish, Pythonic, ample, astronomic, behemothic, big, big fat, bodacious, boxcar, broad, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, cyclopean, elephantic, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titanic, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge
Scrabble Score: 12
gargantuan: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgargantuan: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gargantuan: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary