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Synonyms for gargantuan

  • adjective

Most common

massive giant gigantic colossal

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Gigantic — huge; immense; tremendous

gigantic, giant, large, massive, colossal, elephantine, enormous, mammoth, huge, monstrous, big, immense, titanic, stupendous, prodigious, jumbo, vast, monumental, leviathan, whopping, tremendous, voluminous

Antonyms

small, modest, petty

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Huge; immense; tremendous.

Example sentences

  • massive Algeria exports massive quantities of natural gas.
  • giant Is Algeria, the sleeping giant, finally awakening?
  • gigantic The Algiers Grand Mosque is a gigantic structure.
  • colossal The project required a colossal amount of funding.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
gargantuanrising
massivesteady
giantrising
giganticsteady
colossalsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
big1
4 letters
huge1, vast1
5 letters
large1, giant2, jumbo2
7 letters
massive2, immense2, titanic3, mammoth2
8 letters
enormous3, gigantic3, colossal3, whopping2
9 letters
monstrous2, leviathan4
10 letters
tremendous3, monumental4, prodigious3, stupendous3, voluminous4
11 letters
elephantine4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (giant2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
gargantuesque
Italiano
gigantesco