gargantuan

adj.
Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. See synonyms at enormous.

(gar-GAN-choo-uhn)

adjective
Gigantic.

Etymology
After Gargantua, a voracious giant, the father of Pantagruel, in a series of novels by François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553)

Usage
"Walls were built around Constantinople, gargantuan chains were set over the Bosporus and the Golden Horn to prevent any attempts by the enemy to enter." — Vercihan Ziflioglu; A Sole Burned Gate; Turkish Daily News (Istanbul); Mar 26, 2008.

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adjective

Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal walloping. Slang whopping. See big/small/amount.

adj

Definition: very large
Antonyms: little, minuscule, small, tiny

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kæmpemæssig, enorm, vældig

Nederlands (Dutch)
reusachtig

Français (French)
adj. - gargantuesque

Deutsch (German)
adj. - riesig, hünenhaft

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - γιγαντιαίος, τεράστιος

Italiano (Italian)
gigantesco

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - gigantesco

Русский (Russian)
огромный, гаргантюанский

Español (Spanish)
adj. - gigantesco, enorme, tremendo, colosal

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - gigantisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
庞大的, 巨大的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 龐大的, 巨大的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 매우 큰

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 巨大な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ضخم, عملاق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עצום, ענקי‬

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