This post is in response to Heena Rathore P.’s Word of the Week (WOW). This weekly meme is a great way of improving your vocabulary. If you wish to participate, simply create a post with your word and leave a link in a comment on Heena’s WOW post.
Here’s my WOW for this week:
Word
gargantuan
Part of Speech
adjective
comparative: more gargantuan
superlative: most gargantuan
Pronunciation
gar-gan-tu-an (gär-găn′cho͞o-ən)
Meaning
1) Of immense size, extent, or quantity
2) Of exceedingly great scope or nature
Synonyms
big, collosal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, ginormous, humungous, huge, immense, jumbo, large, leviathan, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, whopping
Antonyms
insignificant, little, miniature, miniscule, minute, small, teeny, tiny, unimportant,
Word Origin
1585-95 – From Gargantua, a giant with a large mouth and huge appetite in Rabelais’s The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Name possibly from the Spanish/Portuguese garganta, meaning gullet / throat.
Use in a Sentence
1) The restaurant boasted the most gargantuan ice-cream sundaes in the whole universe; it was at the top of her list of places to visit.
2)The bones were more gargantuan than any Dr Cooper had ever seen before. He knew this dinosaur was something special.
3) The whole of the theatre group had made a gargantuan effort in bringing the production together.
If you want to discover more great words then visit Heena’s page Word Treasure.
Great word!
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Thank you. 🙂
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I love this word and your post is great, Lou. Great illustrations, too. 🙂
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Thank you, Millie! I’m glad you like it. 🙂
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