Brobdingnagian love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Immense; enormous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like or likened to an inhabitant of the fabled region of Brobdingnag in Swift's “Gulliver's Travels”; hence, of enormous size; gigantic.
  • noun A gigantic person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
  • adjective figuratively Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
  • noun A creature from Brobdingnag.
  • noun figuratively A giant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
  • adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Brobdingnag +‎ -ian.

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Examples

  • In my opinion we need to chill out on all extremist plans that entail expenses best described as Brobdingnagian, require our intervention into developing countries best portrayed as imperialistic, or involve state controls best portrayed as fascistic.

    Michael Shermer: Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change 2009

  • Lilliputian heads -- great though the girth of the stem may be -- conveys rather the idea of Brobdingnagian piles driven in by giants, and exhibiting the last flickerings of vitality in a few puny sprouts at their summit.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • As hedge-fund managers such as Whitney Tilson have discovered, Netflix is living a kind of Brobdingnagian existence.

    Time to Hit Pause Button on Netflix Martin Peers 2011

  • Gulliver's Travels is the book that has defined gigantic and miniature creatures, giving us adjectives such as 'Brobdingnagian' as well as the expression "Yahoo" for an uncivilized ruffian.

    Gulliver's Travels Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • He brought me upwards into a room crammed with strange machinery, all cranks and levers and wires and pulleys, and before us two great cylinders like unto a "Brobdingnagian" music box.

    Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904

  • Netflix is living a kind of Brobdingnagian existence.

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  • In "Lorraine, France" 1999, two huge, tubalike configurations are streaked from the effects of time, but their complexity, similarity, Brobdingnagian scale and Mr. Bourdeau's decorous treatment of them make an image both sweet and solemn.

    Industrial Art And a Kitty William Meyers 2012

  • Hirst's gigantic Brobdingnagian tray is filled with the contents of several bin bags, apparently all from a night at the Groucho club in the days when members could chain it.

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  • Danger looms when future rents look as if they can't grow fast enough to satisfy the market's Brobdingnagian expectations.

    House Prices, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Illuminated by a mile of tubing, they were like slides for a Brobdingnagian projector.

    Kodak's Grand Central Moments Richard B. Woodward 2011

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