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Definition of gigantesque : Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.

Synonyms:

vasty, prodigious, enormous, mastodonic, Cyclopean, grand, supersize, Bunyanesque, pharaonic, titanic, monster, Himalayan, mega, oceanic, pythonic, Herculean, jumbo, planetary, Brobdingnagian, colossal, gargantuan, vast, leviathan, immense, mammoth, whacking, mountainous, massy, monumental, super-duper, astronomical, humongous, mighty, gigantic, stupendous, massive, monstrous, big, tremendous, super, king-size, cosmic, behemoth, elephantine, giant, huge, heroic, whopping, galactic, supersized, walloping, bumper

Usage examples:

• But the diction used by Christ is quite curiously gigantesque; it is full of camels leaping through needles and mountains hurled into the sea. - "Orthodoxy", G. K. Chesterton.
• Balzac protested strenuously against the use of the word " gigantesque" in reference to his work; and of course it is susceptible of an unhandsome innuendo. - "The Human Comedy Introductions and Appendix", Honore de Balzac Commentator: George Saintsbury.
• Balzac does, and from this very accumulation he manages to derive that singular gigantesque vagueness- differing from the poetic vague, but ranking next to it- which I have here ventured to note as his distinguishing quality. - "The Human Comedy Introductions and Appendix", Honore de Balzac Commentator: George Saintsbury.