What's the difference between brobdingnagian and pantagruelian?

Brobdingnagian


Definition:

  • (a.) Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.
  • (n.) A giant.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Pantagruelian


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