brobdingnagian

Thân thiện

A brobdingnagian statue of a king stands in the city square.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Enormous, gigantic, immense: Describes something of unusually great size, amount, degree, or scope. This is the primary modern meaning.
   • Relating to Brobdingnag: Pertaining to or characteristic of the imaginary land of Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Meaning: Enormous):
  • The company undertook a brobdingnagian project to build a new transcontinental railway.
  • Cleaning up the environmental damage will be a brobdingnagian task.
• Adjective (Meaning: Relating to Brobdingnag):
  • In the story, Gulliver was afraid of the brobdingnagian wasps.
  • The novel describes the brobdingnagian scale of everything in that land.

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used in a literary or humorous context to emphasize extreme size in a more vivid way than common synonyms like "huge" or "gigantic."
• It can describe abstract concepts (e.g., a task, effort, problem) as well as physical objects.
  • They faced the brobdingnagian challenge of reforming the entire education system.

Variants and Related Words

• Brobdingnag (Proper Noun): The name of the fictional land of giants in .
• Lilliputian (Adjective): The antonym, meaning very small, relating to the land of Lilliput (the land of tiny people) from the same novel.

Synonyms

• Colossal: Extremely large.
• Gargantuan: Enormous, immense.
• Titanic: Of exceptional strength, size, or power.
• Vast: Of very great extent or size; immense.
• Immense: Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

Antonyms

• Minuscule: Extremely small.
• Tiny: Very small.
• Lilliputian: Very small; trivial.
• Infinitesimal: Extremely small.

Notes on Usage

• Brobdingnagian is always capitalized because it is derived from a proper noun (the name of a place).
• While its origin is literary, it is understood and used in modern English to convey a sense of awe-inspiring or almost unimaginable size.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
   • huge government spending
   • huge country estates
   • huge popular demand for higher education
   • a huge wave
   • the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
   • immense numbers of birds
   • at vast (or immense) expense
   • the vast reaches of outer space
   • the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization- W.R.Inge
2. huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag

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• huge
• immense
• vast
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