ginormous
adjUK /dʒaɪˈnɔːməs/ · US /dʒaɪˈnɔɹməs/
Etymology Blend of gi(gantic) + (e)normous. Originally 1940s military slang.
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Colloquial Very large.
- This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.1986, Ron Friedman, The Transformers: The Movie, spoken by Jazz:
- Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World: A Disney Girls Super Special, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 20:
2 more examples
- “Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.”2019, Green Bank Observatory, Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist:
- Visitors from Spain, Sheffield, the US, South Korea and Australia paused beside the tree to pay their respects. “It’s ginormous!” said Carter Jackson, eight, from Sheffield. “It’s a really beautiful tree and it’s sad it’s died.”2026 June 17, Patrick Barkham, “‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- ginormagantuan, ginormously, ginormousness, superginormous