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gargantuan
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?????æn.t?u.?n/
Adjective
gargantuan (comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)
- Huge; immense; tremendous.
- Synonyms: colossal, enormous, giant, huge, humongous, immense; see also Thesaurus:gigantic
- (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Derived terms
- gargantuanism
- gargantuanly
- gargantuanness
Translations
Further reading
- “gargantuan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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extensive
English
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extens?vus, from Latin extensus.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?ks?t?n.s?v/
Adjective
extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)
- having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
- (figuratively) considerable in amount.
- I have done extensive research on the subject.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
- (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Derived terms
- extensive property
Related terms
- extend
- extense
- extent
Translations
See also
- intensive
French
Adjective
extensive
- feminine singular of extensif
Latin
Adjective
ext?ns?ve
- vocative masculine singular of ext?ns?vus
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