(a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
(2) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.
(3) That means reconsidering the ‘sacred cows’ of the political class, including overseas aid and the gargantuan scale of the welfare state.
(4) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(5) The game combines elements of the first-person shooter (FPS) and role-playing game (RPG) genres into one gargantuan experience.
(6) The good news is that you don't have to travel to southern California to get a taste of 2014's blockbuster wannabes: a slew of trailers that debuted inside the San Diego Convention Centre 's gargantuan Hall H have now hit the web – and there's no need to dress up like Xena the warrior princess to watch them.
(7) The annual gatherings have grown from roughly 500 participants at the first official climate negotiations in Berlin in 1995 to sprawling jamborees – gargantuan rotating festivals of anything remotely associated with environmental causes or, increasingly, profit-making “green” enterprises.
(8) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(9) Just a million years earlier, the planet had been devastated by a gargantuan eruption of natural gas, which caused unprecedented greenhouse warming.
(10) An inquiry led by Lord Justice Leveson , meanwhile, held a spectacularly harsh light to the "ethics and practices" of the press and the politicians last summer and, in a gargantuan 1,987-page report in November, recommended a broad and complex system in which newspapers remained self-regulated but with a new body replacing the fatally criticised Press Complaints Commission and being recognised in law.
(11) Below, a gargantuan steel ring hovers 10 storeys above the ground, its perimeter adorned with metal spikes.
(12) I suppose the most humanitarian purpose of all would be to prevent the slaughter of innocents because the slaughter of innocents is what we have seen on a gargantuan scale in Syria and northern Iraq in the last few months,” he said.
(13) And then there’s the gargantuan American arsenal of weapons and the havoc wreaked with it.
(14) To One Love Manchester then, the gargantuan benefit concert in aid of the victims of the horrific terror attack in Manchester at the Ariana Grande gig in May .
(15) He is to blame for the gargantuan queues outside petrol stations."
(16) The gargantuan total, the first time a movie has ever opened north of $500m, was helped by a gigantic $204.6m US total and huge $100.8m Chinese bow, as well as $29.6m in the UK.
(17) Next season’s gargantuan Premier League television deal means promoted teams stand to benefit by a minimum of £170m – even the bottom club will receive just under £100m in broadcast and merit money followed by about £75m in parachute payments.
(18) The British parliament is then meant to “amend, repeal and improve” each law as necessary – a gargantuan task.
(19) When Huhne was one of the first cabinet ministers to settle at the end of September, the gargantuan challenges in his in-tray led people to assume he might have folded early rather than fought the good fight.
(20) At the time, the gargantuan listing valued the Switzerland-based company at about £37bn – despite its reputation for secrecy, and scepticism that it could maintain its huge trading profits.
Huge
Definition:
(superl.) Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(2) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(3) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(4) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(7) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(8) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(9) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(10) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(12) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
(13) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(14) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(15) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(16) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(17) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
(18) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(19) Calum MacLean, Grangemouth Petrochemicals chairman, says, “This is a hugely sad day for everyone at Grangemouth.
(20) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.