gargantuan

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++gar·gan·tu·an /ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən $ ɡɑːr-/ adjective written BIGextremely large 巨大的，庞大的 SYN gigantic a meal of gargantuan proportions 丰盛的大餐 gargantuan task 艰巨的任务

Examples from the Corpus

gargantuan• Of all her mistakes, this was the most gargantuan.• The biggest buildings in the world were under construction, but none so gargantuan as those Gillette projected.• The gargantuan effort was conducted under almost unimaginable conditions of hardship and coercion.• As the snow accumulates from that little boreal patch, growing inexorably year after year, gargantuan ice sheets begin to form.• The executives' gargantuan incomes derive from their power over what has become an increasingly scarce factor of production, capital.• This meal may of course be of gargantuan proportions and much snacking of high-energy foods may precede its consumption.• a gargantuan task• A gargantuan Teddy boy was standing in the stalls, looking down at his feet.Origin gargantuan (1500-1600) Gargantua, name of a giant in the book Gargantua (1534) by François Rabelais