词汇 | gigantic |
释义 | gigantic adjective uk /ˌdʒaɪˈɡæn.tɪk/ us /ˌdʒaɪˈɡæn.t̬ɪk/ extremely large: 巨大的,庞大的 a gigantic statue巨大的雕像 The cost has been gigantic.费用非常庞大。 Synonyms elephantineformal enormous gargantuan huge jumbo mammoth 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 Related wordgigantically gigantic | American Dictionarygigantic adjective us/dʒɑɪˈɡæn·tɪk/ extremely large: a gigantic shopping center Examples of giganticgigantic These fluids emanate from gigantic carbonate edifices that can reach 60m in height. Only a small number of individuals had the capital and connections needed to operate these gigantic farms. This is especially valuable for the large albatrosses, the gigantic stature of which is never fully appreciated from the deck of a ship. Suspended over all is a gigantic globe with a face broken into a great rictus, jagged with six long, sharp teeth. The tendency is toward downsizing, in contrast to the gigantic, budget-devouring, war-hungry military machines of the classic modern era. Instead of mysterious caves, dragons, and romanticized heroes, fantastic factory floors, gigantic machines, and larger than life machinists confront the audience. To the antebellum rogue, the city's gigantic web of secrets held unlimited financial rewards, if only it could be interpreted properly. Gigantic monuments are in line with canonized, hegemonic versions of remembrance. A sound dome could thus be regarded as a gigantic well-tempered spatial instrument with equidistant loudspeakers on its periphery. Such a gigantic catalogue of biochemical events would hardly be an acceptable translation of the novel; it would not convey the same meaning. That is, the role of the state is simply to boost new bankable and commercially viable investment projects, usually of gigantic proportions. But, moving from this valued goal to the practical - the bedside - can be a gigantic extrapolation. At the beginning of the opera, he alludes to the symbolic meaning of the props by describing the machines as magical, gigantic and fantastical. They are carried out from the basket of a bicycle or by global corporations of gigantic scope. The pulse is so intense and so short (its duration cover s only five laser periods), that the force is gigantic. 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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