gargantuan Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite of great mass; huge and bulky
    elephantine; jumbo; giant.
    • a jumbo jet
    • jumbo shrimp

WordNet


Gar*gan"tu*an adjective
Etymology
From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.
Definitions
  1. Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Webster 1913