(1) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(2) I passed Brobdingnagian factories – Shanghai accounts for a third of all China's exports – and an Ikea distribution centre the size of which might prompt a rethink about the Great Wall being the only man-made object visible from space.
Lilliputian
Definition:
(n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."
(n.) A person or thing of very small size.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
(a.) Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
Example Sentences:
(1) You see that when Russell Brand talks on Newsnight about the corrupt lilliputian world of Westminster, and the various YouTube clips total more than 3m views.
(2) In the words of one scathing opposition politician he was "the Lilliputian to Putin's commander-in-chief."
(3) Their Very Own and Golden City (1965) is a fascinating account of a utopian architectural scheme bedevilled by realpolitik: ironically the visionary architects dream of a reinvigorated movement to be called “New Labour.” The Journalists (1971) offers a kaleidoscopic collage about a Sunday newspaper and argues that journalism reflects our Lilliputian society’s desire to cut everyone down to size.
(4) Since the case showed simultaneously delusions of parasitosis and lilliputian hallucinations, it cannot be denied that she has undetected lesions in the brainstem.
(5) As the old political system squirms, like Gulliver tied up by Lilliputians, this is one of many questions to be answered.
(6) delusions of parasitosis, and also lilliputian hallucination is described.
(7) I had had visions of lumbering around like a poorly co-ordinated Gulliver, being laughed at by Lilliputian children.