ginormous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Merriam-Webster traces ginormous back to 1948, when it appeared in a British dictionary of military slang.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ginormous (comparative more ginormous, superlative most ginormous)
- (informal) Very large.
- 1986, Jazz (Autobot), Transformers The Movie
- “This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.”
- 1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World Book #7 page 20
- Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.
- 2019, Green Bank Observatory, Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist:
- “Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.”
- 1986, Jazz (Autobot), Transformers The Movie
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
very large
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