Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. Adjective. Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag.

Partainyms: Brobdingnag
Derivative terms: Brobdingnag

2. Adjective. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope. "The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"
Exact synonyms: Huge, Immense, Vast
Similar to: Big, Large
Derivative terms: Immenseness, Immensity, Vastness

Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. a. Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) enormous Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing. ¹

3. Noun. A creature from Brobdingnag. ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) A giant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brobdingnagian

Britten
Brittish
Brittney
Brittonic
Brix
Brix scale
Brizzie
Brno
Broad Church
Broad Street Bullies
Broadbent
Broadbent's law
Broadbent's sign
Broadway
Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagian
Broca
Broca's angle
Broca's aphasia
Broca's area
Broca's areas
Broca's basilar angle
Broca's center
Broca's centre
Broca's convolution
Broca's diagonal band
Broca's facial angle
Broca's field
Broca's fissure
Broca's formula

Literary usage of Brobdingnagian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... sea-pike, long-nose, gore-bill, sword- Betone vulgar is). Gargantuan, a. brobdingnagian, huge beyond 3. Stimulate by galvanism, bring to a mock ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Imagine indication of the brobdingnagian stature is con- gravitation to be augmented into ... brobdingnagian half-pint. This 1728 is, however, Swift is here ..."

3. The Rescue of an Old Place by Mary Caroline (Pike) Robbins (1892)
"brobdingnagian in the tree-line to walk in our Lilliput one day — a ... That brobdingnagian was a terror ! Luckily he had not much daylight to see the place ..."

4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"But why brobdingnagian? Given a rubbish-heap 50 feet wide, why must the person who either Dr. Holmes has not read oar paper with made it be 50 feet high ? ..."

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