(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.
Humongous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarah Ferguson issued a fresh statement in support of Prince Andrew on Tuesday, describing her ex-husband as a “humongously good man” and endorsing Buckingham Palace’s denial of allegations that he had sexual relations with a teenage girl.
(2) I will fucking do one humongous deal with you ... Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever.
(3) She now has nine million YouTube subscribers and a humongous Twitter following @ZoZeeBo .
(4) "The key drivers are the humongous GDP growth [in fast-developing countries], which is three times that in the old world; lots of exports; and a lot higher investment in Asia."
(5) Buckingham Palace put out a denial,” Ferguson told NBC’s Today, “and we stand by that denial.” “I won’t stand by – because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you – and not support him so publicly, because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,” said Ferguson, who added: “The American people know my integrity.” She said that given Andrew’s qualities “as a great father, and a humongously good man, and all the works he does for Britain,” she would not “let him have his character defamed to this level”.
(6) Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your daughter getting humongous breast implants, after all, there are not serious risks .
(7) Eggy swim, rocky swim…” At the hot river Jack draws his first pictures: Humongous Rock, Humongous Rock II (as an adjective “massive” is abandoned as not up to the job), and Iceland (lots of red and black).
(8) The humongously flaming Behind the Candelabra failed to get theatrical distribution despite starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, while Interior.
(9) Fossil fuel giants already have a humongous credibility gap to fill when it comes to climate and clean energy.
(10) Service is exceptional and prices surprisingly low for the humongous portions.
(11) the six month Japanese yen Libor rate] unchanged today … I will fucking do one humongous deal with you … Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever … I need you to keep it as low as possible … if you do that … I'll pay you, you know, 50,000 dollars, 100,000 dollars … whatever you want … I'm a man of my word".