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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. See Synonyms at enormous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of Gargantua (see etymology); hence, great beyond credibility; enormous; prodigious; Brobdingnagian.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
  2. adj. Huge; immense; tremendous.
  3. adj. Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of great mass; huge and bulky

Etymologies

  1. From Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. (Wiktionary)

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  • bluedust First time I heard this word was Kill Bill Vol. 2 Feb 3, 2012

  • spicolli "You know, I've always liked that word... 'gargantuan'... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence." Kill Bill Vol. 2 Jun 14, 2009

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