gargantuan
adjective /ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən/
/ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən/
[usually before noun]- extremely large
synonym enormous巨大的;庞大的 - a gargantuan appetite/meal
食欲极佳;丰盛的大餐
Collocations DictionaryGargantuan is used with these nouns:- appetite
- proportion
词源late 16th cent.: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an. - a gargantuan appetite/meal