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gigantic

adjective
🔊/dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/
🔊/dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/
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  1. extremely large巨大的；庞大的 synonym enormous, huge
    • a gigantic house一座巨大的房子
    • The problem was beginning to take on gigantic proportions.这个问题开始占据巨大的比例。
    • The bomb caused a gigantic explosion.炸弹引起了巨大的爆炸。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGigantic is used with these nouns:
    • house
    • proportion
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘like or suited to a giant’): from Old French, via Latin from Greek gigas, gigant- + -ic.