GIGANTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gigantic mean? 

• GIGANTIC (adjective)
  The adjective GIGANTIC has 1 sense:

1. so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth

  Familiarity information: GIGANTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIGANTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth

Synonyms:

gigantic; mammoth

Context example:

a mammoth multinational corporation

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

giant (any creature of exceptional size)

giant (an unusually large enterprise)

giant (an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales)

giant (someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful)

giant (a very large person; impressive in size or qualities)

 Context examples 

It was a transfigured face, with great shining eyes that gazed beyond the veil of sound and saw behind it the leap and pulse of life and the gigantic phantoms of the spirit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first is a gigantic negro named Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new species is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Not only was his body that of a giant but everything about him was grotesque, gigantic, and terrifying.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The sun is our nearest star — a gigantic nuclear reactor that burns about 5 million tons of hydrogen fuel every second.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

The galaxy it is a gigantic blob that you can look through.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

We had spent gigantic sums and made enormous exertions to curb the power of Napoleon and to prevent him from becoming the universal despot of Europe.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host star and are heated to extreme temperatures.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)