Brobdingnag
Land of enormity
Brobdingnag is the land of giants in Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels* (1726), where everything is twelve times human scale.
The word has become an allusive reference to anything of immense size: The new stadium was a Brobdingnag of concrete and steel.
The adjective Brobdingnagian means gigantic, the opposite of Lilliputian.
- LilliputFictional land of diminutive inhabitants
- YahoosCrude, uncultured people
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
- eighteenth centuryYears 1701-1800
satire · voyage · English literature · allegory · social commentary · political satire · Enlightenment · travelogue
Extremely large in scale
- enormousExtremely large in scale
- giganticImmensely large in scale
- immenseExtremely large in scope
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
towering · gargantuan · mammoth · titanic · vast · behemoth · elephantine · mountainous
Meaning opposite to words
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- parodySatirical imitation
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- social commentaryAnalysis of societal conditions
lampoon · caricature · wit · allegory · ridicule · burlesque · human folly · European society
Fictional land of diminutive inhabitants
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
- NarniaFictional snow-covered kingdom
- Middle-earthFantasy world with hobbits
- WesterosFantasy realm setting
Hogwarts · Shangri-La · Neverland · Oz · Camelot · Utopia · Discworld · fantasy realm
Gulliver's Travels
- LilliputFictional land of diminutive inhabitants
- YahoosCrude, uncultured people
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
eighteenth century · satire · voyage · English literature · allegory · social commentary · political satire · Enlightenment · travelogue · misanthropy
colossal
Extremely large in scale
massive · towering · gargantuan · mammoth · titanic · vast · behemoth · elephantine · mountainous · oversized
irony
Meaning opposite to words
social commentary · lampoon · caricature · wit · allegory · ridicule · burlesque · human folly · European society · political corruption
Lilliput
Fictional land of diminutive inhabitants
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
- NarniaFictional snow-covered kingdom
- Middle-earthFantasy world with hobbits
Hogwarts · Westeros · Shangri-La · Neverland · Oz · Camelot · Utopia · Discworld · fantasy realm · island nation
- Fictional IslandsAtlantis, Avalon, Neverland, Skull Island, Treasure Island
- Fictional PlacesGotham City, Hogwarts, Mordor, Narnia, Gondor
- giantsgiant, giants, giantesses, titan, Titans
- Gulliver's TravelsGulliver, Swift, Lilliput, Lilliputians, Yahoos
- Swift WorksGulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Lilliput, Yahoos
- Mythical PlacesAtlantis, Avalon, El Dorado, Shangri-La, Utopia