Meaning & use
Brobdingnagian
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of enormous size; gigantic
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The company's new headquarters is a Brobdingnagian glass tower that dwarfs everything else on the skyline.
He described the national debt in Brobdingnagian terms that made the audience gasp.
A note on using this word
The word comes from Brobdingnag, the land of giants in Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.
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