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gigantic
English
Alternative forms
- gigantick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (gigantikós), ultimately from ????? (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?-g?n't?k, IPA(key): /d?a???ænt?k/
- Rhymes: -ænt?k
Adjective
gigantic (comparative more gigantic, superlative most gigantic)
- Very large.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 1[1]:
- Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile)
- Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood,
- Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood;
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 1[1]:
- In the manner of a giant.
Synonyms
- gigantesque
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- gigantism
Related terms
- giant
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
gigant +? -ic
Adjective
gigantic m or n (feminine singular gigantic?, masculine plural gigantici, feminine and neuter plural gigantice)
- giant
Declension
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elephantine
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?l.?.?fæn.tin/, /?l.?.?fæn.t?n/, /?l.?.?fæn.ta?n/
Adjective
elephantine (comparative more elephantine, superlative most elephantine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- This last summer Hanecki had captured Lenin’s imagination with his plans to found a trading company of his own in Europe, or take a partnership in some existing firm and make guaranteed monthly remittances to the Party out of his profits. This was not a Russian pipe dream: every move had been worked out with impressive precision. Kuba hadn’t thought of it himself, it was the brainchild of the elephantine genius Parvus, who had been writing to him from Constantinople. Parvus, once as poor as any other Social Democrat, had gone to Turkey to organize strikes, and now wrote frankly that he had all the money he needed (if rumor was right, he was fabulously wealthy) and that the time had come for the Party too to get rich.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- Very large.
Synonyms
- (of or relating to elephants): elephantic, elephantlike
- (very large): See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- elephantine epoch
- elephantine leprosy
- elephantine tortoise
Translations
Latin
Adjective
elephantine
- vocative masculine singular of elephantinus
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