gargantuan
Beyond merely big
Gargantuan means enormous or immense, typically beyond what seems normal or expected.
The word comes from Gargantua, the giant king in Rabelais's sixteenth-century satire who had an appetite to match his size.
While any synonym for huge will do in most contexts, gargantuan often carries connotations of excess or grotesque scale: a gargantuan meal, gargantuan debts.
It suggests not just bigness but bigness that strains credulity or propriety.
Extremely large in scale
- colossalExtremely large in scale
- titanicEnormously strong or large
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
immense · vast · tremendous · humongous · monumental · prodigious · stupendous · astronomical
Large and awkward to handle
- heftyConsiderable in weight
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- chunkyThick and lumpy
- denseClosely packed together
thick · stout · lumbering · hulking · ponderous · unwieldy · cumbersome · weighty
Creature of immense size
- leviathanEnormous creature or entity
- titanDominant figure in field
- goliathImmense person or thing
- cyclopsSingle-eyed mythical titan
atlas · ogre · troll · nephilim · gigantes · colossus · kraken · roc
Elaborate ceremonial meal
- gorgeDeep, narrow valley
- devourEat greedily and fast
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
insatiable · voracious · banquet · buffet · smorgasbord · indulgent · excessive · abundant
enormous
Extremely large in scale
- colossalExtremely large in scale
- titanicEnormously strong or large
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
massive · immense · vast · tremendous · humongous · monumental · prodigious · stupendous · astronomical · towering
bulky
Large and awkward to handle
dense · thick · stout · lumbering · hulking · ponderous · unwieldy · cumbersome · weighty · heavy
behemoth
Creature of immense size
cyclops · atlas · ogre · troll · nephilim · gigantes · colossus · kraken · roc
feast
Elaborate ceremonial meal
- gorgeDeep, narrow valley
- devourEat greedily and fast
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
ravenous · insatiable · voracious · banquet · buffet · smorgasbord · indulgent · excessive · abundant · copious
- Scalevast, immense, huge, enormous, massive
- sizessmall, medium, large, extra large, extra small
- Bignessvastness, immensity, magnitude, expanse, enormity
- ancient timesancient, primeval, primitive, primordial, archaic
- Beyond Measureimmeasurable, incalculable, boundless, limitless, infinite
- heighttall, short, high, low, height
gargantuantiny
Extremely small in size
minuscule · microscopic · infinitesimal · minute · miniature
gargantuantrivial
Lacking significance or weight
negligible · minuscule · insignificant · trifling · paltry
giant, gigantic, giants, gargoyle, giantess, gigantism, giantesses