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Meanings of gigantic in English

So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth.

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Exceptionally great or large.

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Examples for "mammoth"
Examples for "mammoth"
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Photo: CCDU The Government has given itself a mammoth task in Canterbury.
Radio NZ
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The mammoth fee is subject to the company meeting certain performance targets.
The South African
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They cast half-moons over the mammoth stone house, illuminating the late hour.
Blood Rights
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Thompson said even setting up convoy access had been a mammoth task.
Radio NZ
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It has become a mammoth industry, comprising an array of financial products.
Reuters
Usage of gigantic in English
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The moon glides up in the north; the rocks cast gigantic shadows.
Pan
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Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
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His gigantic figure was never seen in the doorways; he was failing.
Absalom's Hair
4
A gigantic experiment called communism in a laboratory called Russia proved that.
The Red Queen
5
Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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It's a gigantic resource that so far is going almost entirely untapped.
Wired
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And the gigantic force was centred in the hand of a tyrant.
Lectures on Modern history
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The work which Warren Hastings accomplished in India must be called gigantic.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
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Clearly, the gigantic offering of iPhone applications is luring these business groups.
Wired
10
Europe was reduced to a gigantic street brawl from Madrid to Moscow.
Apocalypse of the Dead
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His face was black with fury; he seemed gigantic in his rage.
Heart of the Sunset
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Dolores Huerta is small in body but gigantic in spirit and energy.
Feminist dot com
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The round of mergers between already-gigantic companies has reached an unprecedented level.
The Irish Times
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Despite gigantic effort for fiscal adjustment, no primary surplus has been achieved.
Reuters
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One on the south slope, one on the north: two gigantic Hillfolk.
The half-made world
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The gigantic crustaceans called the EURYPTERIDS were also present in this period.
The Elements of Geology
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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