brobdingnagian (adj.)

"huge, immense, gigantic," 1728, from Brobdingnag + -ian.

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(not *brobdignag), 1727, Swift's name in "Gulliver's Travels" for an imaginary country where everything was on a gigantic scale.

-ian

variant of suffix -an (q.v.), with connective -i-. From Latin -ianus, in which the -i- originally was from the stem of the word being attached but later came to be felt as connective. In Middle English frequently it was -ien, via French.

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Brobdingnagian (adj.)

huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag;

Brobdingnagian (adj.)

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge;

Synonyms: huge / immense / vast

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