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gargantuan.

Huge; immense; tremendous.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/Received-Pronunciation/ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/Canada, General-American/ɡaːˈɡæn.t͡ʃʉ.ən/Australia
  1. Huge; immense; tremendous.

  2. Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

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