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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
- Example: "huge government spending"
- Example: "huge country estates"
- Example: "huge popular demand for higher education"
- Example: "a huge wave"
- Example: "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"
- Example: "immense numbers of birds"
- Example: "at vast (or immense) expense"
- Example: "the vast reaches of outer space"
- Example: "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge
[syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a
   country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels."]
   Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant.
   [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Brobdingnagian
    adj 1: huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary
           country of Brobdingnag
    2: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
       extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "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"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast,
       Brobdingnagian]