| 词汇 | gargantuan |
| 释义 | gargantuan adjective uk /ɡɑːˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/ us /ɡɑːrˈɡæn.tʃu.ən/ very large: 巨大的，硕大的，庞大的 a problem of gargantuan proportions非常严重的问题 a gargantuan appetite极强的食欲 Synonyms elephantineformal enormous giant huge jumbo vast greater than the average size or amount bigThey live in a big house in the country. largeA large number of people were crowded into the room. greatThe party was a great success. enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs. Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurably immense immensity inordinate inordinately precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly gargantuan | American Dictionarygargantuan adjective us/ɡɑrˈɡæn·tʃu·ən/ very large: He has a gargantuan ego. Examples of gargantuangargantuan But it would have been too gargantuan an endeavour for the government to consider such a plan. Clearly, the calculation of precise costs for all support for older people would be a gargantuan task. They take in their stride projects of gargantuan scale with the lightness of heart in which architects normally approach house conversions. Information is consistently presented in an ordered and accessible format, not least in the gargantuan bibliography. Placing these different types of representations into a comprehensive whole is a gargantuan task. There can be no questioning the author's dedication and gargantuan effort in pulling together a text of this nature. Later on, literacy exposes children to more words, and it is likely that the gargantuan vocabularies of some adults (over 100,000 words) could not arise without the ability to read. Molinists, like other philosophers, may still need to plead guilty to the charge of arrogance, but it is at least not arrogance on quite so gargantuan a scale. The editors are also to be commended for what was obviously a gargantuan effort expended in maintaining uniformity of form across the writings of a dozen people. We feel that it treats the matter in too gargantuan terms. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It will show you what a gargantuan task it would be to head down that road. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There is a sudden, massive over-reaction to a situation, a mobilisation of everything and everybody in one enormous gargantuan proposal to deal with the economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The units of society today are becoming gargantuan. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that if there were such centralisation the mistakes made would be on a gargantuan scale and might affect the whole economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will go towards paying for the gargantuan additional costs inherent in rail fragmentation and privatisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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