Thesaurus / gigantesque
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Sa voix, qui tait enroue et faible, contrastait singulirement avec sa stature presque gigantesque.
CONTES FRANAISDOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM
The word which to us best recalls such gigantesque idiocy is the word "mafficking."
ALARMS AND DISCURSIONSG. K. CHESTERTON
In a city like ours, every thing should be in keeping, and the predominant principle should be the gigantesque.
A certain grandeur of movement alone can preserve its gigantesque quality and impression of power.
MUSICAL MEMORIESCAMILLE SAINT-SANS
Everything about this great composer was gigantesque, as became a giant.
GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOWMATURIN MURRAY BALLOU
One of them was my son of Anak, astride Margaret's mare, and so looking more gigantesque than ever.
THE YEOMAN ADVENTURERGEORGE W. GOUGH
There was something, too, in its order, by which it resembled the gigantesque features of the old Greek master.
Flaubert scribbled on Du Camp's letters another of his favourite expletives, Gigantesque!
EGOISTSJAMES HUNEKER
Two or three gigantesque meeting-houses, featureless and sombre, domineer over the roofs around them.
UPPINGHAM BY THE SEAJOHN HENRY SKRINE
But le père Bellefort, Valerie, he is gigantesque, like his son.
ROSIN THE BEAULAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS
WORDS RELATED TO GIGANTESQUE
- Bunyanesque
- behemoth
- big
- blimp
- brobdingnagian
- colossal
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- gargantuan
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- gross
- herculean
- heroic
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- massy
- mastodonic
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- prodigious
- pythonic
- stupendous
- super-duper
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- whale of a
- whaling
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