What is the meaning of brobdingnagian?

adjective

  • Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag.
  • Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope."huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge... Which we call civilization- W. R. Inge
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