GIGANTESQUE

Definition: GIGANTESQUE

GIGANTESQUE

Adjective

1. Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GIGANTESQUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

Etymology: Gigantesque \Gi`gan*tesque"\, adjective. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: GIGANTESQUE

French (gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immence, monstrous, mountainous, outsize, oversize).

In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 53. Figuier gigantesque a Nouka-Hiva. Baie Anna Maria. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

gjigant (abnormal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, huge, monster), vigan (colossal, enormous, giant, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колосален (colossal), гигантски (giant, giantlike, gigantic, mammoth, oversize). (various references)

Czech

gigantický (gigantic, Titanic). (various references)

French

gigantesque (gigantic). (various references)

Hebrew 

ע� קי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, stupendous, walloping). (various references)

Hungarian

kolosszális (colossal, gigantean, gigantic, whacking-great), hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, huge, mighty, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic, vast), gigászi (gigantean, gigantic, promethean), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Pig Latin

igantesquegay

Russian 

гигантский (Cyclopean, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gigantle, jumbo), исполинский. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

džinovski (giant, giantlike, titanic). (various references)

Spanish

gigantesco (gargantuan, giant, gigantic, mammoth, Titanic). (various references)

Ukranian 

гігантський (giant, gigantic), велетенський (giantlike, mammoth, monster). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khổng l. (various references)

Misspellings

"GIGANTESQUE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dianesque, giantesque. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: quaggiest.

-3 letters: antiques, egesting, equating, equiseta, eugenias, eugenist, guesting, naggiest, questing, quietens, sauteing, segueing, unitages.

-4 letters: ageings, antique, asquint, augites, aunties, easting, eatings, engages, equates, equines, equites, etesian, eugenia, gangues, gasting, guineas, gunites, gusting, ingates, ingesta, inquest, negates, nuggets, quieten, quinate, quintas, quintes, seating, sequent, signage, sinuate, staggie, staging, teasing, unitage.

-5 letters: aeneus, ageing.

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