supergargantuan
English
Alternative forms
- super gargantuan
- super-gargantuan
Etymology
super- + gargantuan
Adjective
supergargantuan (comparative more supergargantuan, superlative most supergargantuan)
- (rare) Extremely gargantuan; extraordinarily large or great.
- 1958, Commonweal, Volume 68, Commonweal Publishing Corporation, page 326:
- The monstrous near-nude lady and gent who used, oddly enough, to advertise a clothing store, have fallen before the wreckers and have been replaced by two supergargantuan pop bottles separated, just as oddly, by a Niagara of a waterfall.
- 1959, The Nation, Volume 188, J.H. Richards, page 60:
- The Rand-type thinkman thinks only about death and how to inflict it on a supergargantuan scale.
- 2010 June 4, Michael Lynderey, “June 2010 Forecast”, in www.boxofficeprophets.com:
- June 2010 appears relatively massive, with a slow streak ending on the 18th and giving way to an escalation of blockbusters - in what looks to be 15 days of supergargantuan box office.
- 2013 July 8, Trevor Johnston, “Cleopatra 1963, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz”, in timeout.com:
- Restored to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, this super-gargantuan historical drama from 1963 may not be much of a movie, but it delivers Hollywood spectacle of the sort we’ll never see again.
- 2020 October 19, Brian Maher, “The Fed Finally Admits It”, in silverbearcafe.com:
- The Federal Reserve selected option two of course. That is, it chose intervention on a supergargantuan scale.