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Definition of gargantuan
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Synonyms & Antonyms for gargantuan
Synonyms
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
Antonyms
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
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The Green New Deal, the blueprint for some of the most substantial proposals put forth on the issue, is still framed as our last chance to avert catastrophe and save the planet, by way of gargantuan renewable-energy projects. — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, "What If We Stopped Pretending?," 8 Sep. 2019 Every branch of the U.S. military is currently seeking ways to do just that—to harness gargantuan leaps in image recognition and data processing for the purpose of creating a faster, more precise, less human kind of warfare. — The Atlantic, "Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill," 3 Sep. 2019 Banning the use of single use-plastics could be an important step in dealing with the gargantuan issue. — Jack Guy, CNN, "Modi has vowed to ban single-use plastics to fight India's trash crisis," 15 Aug. 2019 But simply by raising a second gargantuan pot of money, Mr Son has given the doubters a big black eye and himself a day to remember. — The Economist, "SoftBank’s transformation into an investment powerhouse continues," 1 Aug. 2019 Companies such as Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil, who invest gargantuan sums based on such trends, would rather be out in front than lagging in the rear. — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, "Are Conservatives Embracing a Carbon Tax?," 1 Aug. 2019 The episode laid bare the fragility of China’s gargantuan interbank money market, whose daily transactions... — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, "China’s Financial Plumbing Is Getting Leakier," 8 July 2019 Cringiest non-speaking performance Trent Brown, the Raiders’ gargantuan lineman displayed quite an appetite for candy. — Jon Becker, The Mercury News, "‘Hard Knocks’ awards: Gruden steals show again, for better or worse," 28 Aug. 2019 This gargantuan patchwork of three ranches owned by media mogul Ted Turner has long drawn adventurers with its trout fishing, epic nature hikes, and frontier ghost towns—even seasonal elk hunting. — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, "How Sustainable Design Is Changing Hotels, Cruises, and Even Safaris," 23 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gargantuan.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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