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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
- adj. Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
- n. A creature from Brobdingnag.
- n. A giant.
Etymologies
- After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.
Examples
“brobdingnagian' has become rather less used (for 'colossal'), although Italy has been described as 'the brobdingnagian boot'.”
“At the time, Hollywood was locked in a brobdingnagian battle with an existential competitor: television.”
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“Stylish togs for people who complain that department stores cater only to the brobdingnagian.”
“Even Spy Smasher whose every facial expression shows a brobdingnagian contempt for everyone around her is wonderfully designed.”
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“Notwithstanding, the scenario is exclusively polar now, as the brobdingnagian development of subject has made it mathematical to timekeeper movies inexact online quite easily!”
“Honestly, at this point I hope the hubris of the neocons, which at this point has attained positively brobdingnagian proportions, blind them to the reality of the situation, prompting them to try to steal the 2006 elections.”
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“However, thanks to the kindlness of strangers and my college's brobdingnagian endowment, I will be able to continue my "good work.”
“He wandered among the brobdingnagian machines and found nothing.”
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“By now, though, the gale outside had risen to brobdingnagian proportions.”
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“From one of these windows, looking north, Rudolph Pelz, by the holding-aside of a dead weight of pink brocade and filet lace, could gaze upon a sweep of Hudson River that flowed majestically between the great flank of the city and the brobdingnagian Palisades.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brobdingnagian’.
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Conlangs and Fantasy Languages
Names of constructed languages (excluding Tolkien's, which get a list of their own) and languages presented only in works of fiction. I'm going to be flexible about what gets listed and include bot...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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BIG Words
Awesome words that just mean "BIG"
gargantuan, massive, behemoth, colossal, mammoth, monumental, leviathan, immense, enormous, elephantine, astronomical, whopping and 18 more...
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Mythical Qualities
Adjectives derived from mythological figures
saturnine, apollonian, dionysian, oedipal, mercurial, martial, erotic, aphrodisiac, orphic, titanic, herculean, puckish and 20 more...
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woody words
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wood, caribou, hoops, gone, erogenous zone, boob, powder, bobcat, brobdingnagian, fulsome, corn, abacus and 5 more...
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Best words ever
The most awesome words.
abacot, aristology, autohagiography, backronym, bafflegab, bodacious, boustrophedonic, brobdingnagian, bromopnea, cachinnatory, dactylonomy, eagre and 26 more...
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bluebirdcry's list
I love words. The following words do I find especially interesting.
nihilism, aboulomania, bibliomania, arithmomania, dinomania, probabilism, chrysophilist, ergophile, myrmecophilous, philonoist, mathematicaster, logomachy and 4 more...
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DreamDragon1's list
Unusual words for "good," and "big," and "small" ...
tbtabby The opposite of lilliputian. May 15, 2009
jmjarmstrong JM cowers in the shade of all things brobdingnagian Feb 19, 2009
sionnach A strong contender for the most hideously unpronounceable literary eponym ever (adjectival category) award. Dec 24, 2008
seanahan Also part of the name of a great band, The Brobdingnagian Bards . Jan 8, 2008
yarb Ha ha. That is a great haiku: it's always good to get a five-syllable word in a haiku. Jan 7, 2008
vmarinelli For the best usage of this word, ever: see the haiku of this twitterite: here. (The brilliant mommy blogger behind same: here.) Jan 7, 2008