Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. humorous Very large.
Etymologies
- Blend of gigantic and enormous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He's cute, small (20lbs), and currently moulting (ie, his undercoat is shedding in ginormous clumps), in case you're new to the blog and haven't seen pictures.”
“And, to save you time, I am aware that ginormous is a made up word.”
“Well Watchmen finally hits theaters today (my wife and I will be checking it out tonight in ginormous IMAX), so what better wayto celebrate — or drown your sorrows in case you didn’t like the movie — with Watchmen inspired drinks fromtheIsotopecomic lounge in San Francisco.”
“Oh, and, in case you are wondering, much to my glee and John’s disgust, ginormous is indeed officially a word.”
“With fiscal chaos sweeping the globe like some kind of ginormous dustpan and brush set, nothing and nobody was untouched.”
“It doesn't have to be a 'ginormous' gesture -- it could be as easy as holding the door open for someone, paying toll for the car behind you or just a simple smile to a stranger.”
“Space is ginormous In case you're wondering, 'ginormous' is indeed a scientific measure of space.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Fractenberg: We're Going To The Moon...Again
“Or is that some kind of ginormous, faux cracked bracelet?”
“Of course, any decent person should be when it comes to the crass, crude and unavoidably sexual "ginormous," but I am even when there's no good reason to be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ginormous’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 214 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 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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Words for Big
Words, terms and phrases that denote big, bigness, or making something bigger.
enlarge, giant, giantess, biggify, enormous, enhance, augment, whopper, swell, swollen, inflated, gigantic and 54 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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frenetic, farrago, fandango, ensemble, assay, emulsion, taut, winnow, ridonkulous, ginormous, frisson, idee fixe and 181 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Words that I thought were made up
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ginormous.
denmama Best usage: See "Elf" Apr 2, 2010
bilby Thanks ptero. Jan 24, 2010
Prolagus I invented this word RIGHT NOW! Jan 24, 2010
dontcry I don't remember anything about 1984...it's a complete blank. Jan 24, 2010
pterodactyl I was curious about M-W's claim to have dated this word to 1948, so I got a second opinion from the OED. The OED says the same thing, it turns out, and goes into further detail:
Oooh, a heavy party in the mess -- sounds like a good time! Jan 24, 2010bilby I first remember hearing the word in 1984. Jan 24, 2010
karenrich I invented the word "ginormous" in 1998 while working at Netscape. It was my combination of "giant" and "enormous". I had tested "egantic" (enormous + gigantic) -- but that had no where near the ring to it of "ginormous".
karen richardson Jan 24, 2010
pekihaydiopuyorumbyebye I really prefer "bignormous" over "ginormous." The beauty of bignormous is that of a yellow schoolbus converted into a methlab and then thrown up on a flatbed truck and filled with schoolkids again. The perfect mix of perversion, human will, and organicity. That, by the way, was a bignormous sentence, not a ginormous one. Sep 22, 2009
eosborne The word means "impressively or remarkably big," and is used a lot by my kids (ages 11 and 7)and, I suspect, young people generally. Sep 19, 2009
solson Huge, very large; a contraction of "gigantic" and "enormous" Jul 13, 2009
Hobbit gigantic and enormous Jul 5, 2009
autrefois Something that's ginormous is huge (gigantic, enormous). That's a ginormous bump he's got on his arm — that must really hurt! Jun 20, 2009
jason absurdly, comically large Apr 3, 2009
slumry It amuses me when I hear people say it (usually it is the context that is funny). I have not become comfortable enough with it to speak it...perhaps in time, who knows. Call me stick-in-the-mud Jul 11, 2007
reesetee And yet I just can't warm up to this word.... :-) Jul 11, 2007
john "Just two years after a majority of visitors to Merriam-Webster OnLine declared it to be their "Favorite Word (Not in the Dictionary)," the adjective "ginormous" (now officially defined as "extremely large: humongous"), has won a legitimate place in the 2007 copyright update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition." (http://www.m-w.com/info/newwords07.htm)
Two years? Lame. Especially given that M-W itself dates the word to 1948. Jul 11, 2007
seanahan A related term is gihugic. Dec 29, 2006
john "Juan de Bedout, manager of the electric power and propulsion systems lab at G.E., said this was more important now because wind machines had grown from a few hundred kilowatts to 1.5 gigawatts, and his company was exploring machines four times bigger than that. “That’s ginormous,�? he said."
- New York Times, 12/28/06, "It’s Free, Plentiful and Fickle" Dec 28, 2006