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gigantic; enormous; colossal: a gargantuan task.
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Gargantuan
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example Sentences
- Perhaps it has swollen to needlessly gargantuan proportions.
- The simple fact ignored is our gargantuan cost of health care.
- Searing heat, towering dunes, gargantuan rocks and weather that would frighten a crab-boat captain are the norm.
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Word Origin & History
gargantuan
1596, from Gargantua, large-mouthed giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Sp./Port. garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle.
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