 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Brobdingnagian
adjective
1: huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country
of Brobdingnag
2: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country
estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a
huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an
immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense
numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the
vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of
knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {huge},
{immense}, {vast}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brobdingnagian \Brob'ding*nag"i*an\, adjective [From Brobdingnag, a
country of giants in ''Gulliver's Travels.'']
Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant.
[Spelt often {Brobdignagian}.]
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