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单词 gargantuan
释义
gargantuan
adjective
uk
/ɡɑːˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/us
/ɡɑːrˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/
verylarge:
巨大的，庞大的
aproblemofgargantuanproportions非常严重的问题
a gargantuanappetite极强的食欲
Synonyms
elephantineformal
enormous
giant
huge
jumbo
vast
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
greater than the average size or amount
  • bigThey live in a big house in the country.
  • largeA large number of people were crowded into the room.
  • greatThe party was a great success.
  • enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enormous
  • almighty
  • astronomical
  • astronomically
  • behemoth
  • bumper
  • by far and awayidiom
  • cavernous
  • immeasurably
  • immense
  • immensity
  • inordinate
  • inordinately
  • mountainous
  • precipitous
  • prodigiously
  • stratospheric
  • super-colossal
  • supersized
  • terrific
  • thumping
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(Definition ofgargantuanfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

gargantuan| American Dictionary

gargantuan
adjective
us
/ɡɑrˈɡæn·tʃu·ən/
verylarge:
He has a gargantuanego.
(Definition ofgargantuanfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgargantuan

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But it would have been toogargantuanan endeavour for the government to consider such a plan.
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Clearly, the calculation of precise costs for all support for older people would be agargantuantask.
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They take in their stride projects ofgargantuanscale with the lightness of heart in which architects normally approach house conversions.
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Information is consistently presented in an ordered and accessible format, not least in thegargantuanbibliography.
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Placing these different types of representations into a comprehensive whole is agargantuantask.
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There can be no questioning the author's dedication andgargantuaneffort in pulling together a text of this nature.
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Later on, literacy exposes children to more words, and it is likely that thegargantuanvocabularies of some adults (over 100,000 words) could not arise without the ability to read.
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Molinists, like other philosophers, may still need to plead guilty to the charge of arrogance, but it is at least not arrogance on quite sogargantuana scale.
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The editors are also to be commended for what was obviously agargantuaneffort expended in maintaining uniformity of form across the writings of a dozen people.
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We feel that it treats the matter in toogargantuanterms.
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It will show you what agargantuantask it would be to head down that road.
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There is a sudden, massive over-reaction to a situation, a mobilisation of everything and everybody in one enormousgargantuanproposal to deal with the economy.
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The units of society today are becominggargantuan.
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I say that if there were such centralisation the mistakes made would be on agargantuanscale and might affect the whole economy.
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It will go towards paying for thegargantuanadditional costs inherent in rail fragmentation and privatisation.
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