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Brobdingnagian

adjective

(Spelt often Brobdignagian)

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

Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope. Synonyms: huge, immense, vast. "Huge country estates" , "Huge popular demand for higher education" , "A huge wave" , "The Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains" , "Immense numbers of birds" , "At vast (or immense) expense" , "The vast reaches of outer space" , "The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"

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"Brobdingnagian" Quotes from Famous Books

... pitches, struggles, totters, wavers, halts, turns aside, trembles on the edge of collapse. More than once it seems to be foundering, both in the equine and in the maritime senses. The tale has been heard of a tree so tall that it took two men to see to the top of it. Here is a novel so brobdingnagian that a single reader can scarcely read his ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... over one hundred feet before branching, and the branches are loaded with orchids and trailers. One cannot see what the foliage is like which is borne far aloft into the summer sunshine, but on the ground I found great red trumpet flowers and crimson corollas, like those of a Brobdingnagian honeysuckle, and flowers like red dragon-flies enormously magnified, and others like large, single roses in yellow wax, falling slowly down now and then, messengers from the floral glories above, "wasting ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... hat—and it's night. Wink at the right time of black night—and it's morning. Everything is in extremes. There is an insect here that chirps all day. There is one outside the window now. The chirp is very loud: something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper. The creature is born to chirp; to progress in chirping; to chirp louder, louder, louder; till it gives one tremendous chirp and bursts itself. That is its life and death. Everything is 'in a concatenation accordingly.' The day gets brighter, brighter, brighter, till ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

Words linked to "Brobdingnagian" : immense, big, huge, Brobdingnag, large, vast