Term Gallery logo

Meanings of brobdingnagian in English

Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.

Related terms

Imaginary place.

Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "huge"
Examples for "huge"
1
The authors agree with Japan's health ministry: finance is a huge problem.
The economist
2
Food poverty is a huge problem in Ireland and throughout the EU.
The Irish Times
3
She says the government has a huge responsibility to address the problem.
Radio NZ
4
In Europe, Britain paid for a huge army of occupation in Germany.
The Guardian
5
But the authorities' indiscriminate military response has put civilians at huge risk.
The Irish Times
1
Poultry slaughtering totals almost 900 million a year, the vast majority chickens.
Reuters
2
Today, the vast majority of Singaporeans live in high quality public housing.
Reuters
3
However, that is an unlikely scenario given Jobs's vast wealth, he said.
Reuters
4
Biofuels Bioenergy production in particular requires vast amounts of land and water.
The Guardian
5
Separately, vast guarantees were given regarding safeguarding national security interests, sites, jobs.
Reuters
1
We believe there is immense value creation to happen in the future.
The Guardian
2
The political fallout in Spain, Europe and the world will be immense.
The Irish Times
3
From what he had seen, Syndic internal security forces wielded immense power.
Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnaught
4
Over the years, I have seen immense change in my home parish.
The Irish Times
5
We returned to town with him leading; Main Street seemed particularly immense.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
Usage of brobdingnagian in English
1
This brobdingnagian contraption is called, not surprisingly, the Giant Swiss Army Knife.
Wired
2
The imperial sailors were distinguished by their uniforms of a large blue and white check, suggesting the pinafores of a brobdingnagian baby.
Rezanov
3
Brobdingnagian compression units sent a volley of solvitriol bombs into the air.
The last page
4
The fancy conjures up a Brobdingnagian wheat-field partially cut in the green stage.
In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
5
It's all heraldic crests and huge portals, especially on the Brobdingnagian main square.
The Guardian
6
He stood before the largest passage yet in a cave of Brobdingnagian proportions.
Blind descent: the quest to discover the deepest place on earth
7
Such a cooking apparatus as might have graced a Brobdingnagian kitchen.
The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
8
He had no difficulty in recognizing Susy's peculiarly Brobdingnagian school-girl hand.
Clarence
9
To announce it is to invite gasps or Brobdingnagian laughter.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
10
He heaved a Brobdingnagian sigh of relief when they finished.
The Plastic Age
11
When Grildrig was nearly drowned in the Brobdingnagian cream-jug he doubtless thought it very deep.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
12
And he rumbled and thundered again with Brobdingnagian mirth.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
13
A Brobdingnagian goes down as easily as a Liliputian.
Around the Tea-Table
14
Altogether his story was of the Brobdingnagian type.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations /...
15
At the swelling thought, his chest became Brobdingnagian.
A Chair on the Boulevard
16
Stranded tanks have an appearance of Brobdingnagian helplessness.
My Second Year of the War
More collocations
Brobdingnagian through the time