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Word entry · 10 letters

gargantuan

Best crossword clue

"Colossal in scale"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aaaggnnrtuStarts with GEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. of great mass; huge and bulky

Word origin

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

Used in a sentence

  • Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.
  • Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.
  • Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.

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