brobdingnagian

1. 1.

   huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymshugeimmensevast

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Questions about brobdingnagian

What does brobdingnagian mean?

brobdingnagian means "huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brobdingnagian?

brobdingnagian has 5 syllables: brob-ding-nag-i-an. The stress falls on "nag". In IPA it is /ˌbɹɔbdɪɡˈnæɡiən/.

What is another word for brobdingnagian?

Close synonyms include huge, immense, vast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brobdingnagian a common word?

brobdingnagian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.