gigantesque
adjEtymology From French, from Italian gigantesco, ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγᾱς (gígās, “giant”). Compare giga-, giant.
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Very large; like a giant; gigantic.
- As Smythe took the handles and they turned the great corner of the street, Angus was amused to see a gigantesque poster of “Smythe’s Silent Service,” with a picture of a huge headless iron doll, carrying a saucepan with the legend, “A Cook Who is Never Cross.”1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Invisible Man”, in The Innocence of Father Brown: