adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Brobdingnagian
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: B R AO2 B D IH0 G N AE1 G IY0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
Antonyms: lilliputian
adj
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of Brobdingnagian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 4
A creature from Brobdingnag.
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noun
Meaning 5
A giant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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adjective
Meaning 6
huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope- W.R.Inge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: huge, immense, vast
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Brobdingnag + -ian, fictional country inhabited by giants in Gulliver's Travels.