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say it: brawb-dig-NAG-ee-uhn
brobdingnagian is an adjective meaning "huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag". It is pronounced /ˌbɹɔbdɪɡˈnæɡiən/ — brawb-dig-NAG-ee-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
“huge government spending”
“huge country estates”
“huge popular demand for higher education”
“a huge wave”
“the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”
“immense numbers of birds”
“at vast (or immense) expense”
“the vast reaches of outer space”
“the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brobdingnagian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.