Giganticの例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: Really really big

A: big! huge!

A: gigantic is another word for Big, massive, large. It's something in great size.

A: "I had a gigantic breakfast"
"The other day I had a gigantic load of work to do"
"My family are planning a gigantic trip to Paris in the summer"
"Wow, that building is gigantic"

A: "Their house looks like a gigantic onion."
"It's not just big, it's gigantic!"
"There was a gigantic gopher in my backyard yesterday."

A: gigantic and enormous both refer to size.

I would usually only use the word 'gigantic' when refering to height.

I would usually use the word 'enormous' when something is bigger than I would have expected or generally large is size or quantity.

'Tremendous' is also a word that can be used to express a large quantity/size however it's most commonly used when expressing the strength of an emotion. e.g 'I had a tremendous time at the movies'.

To note I rarely hear tremendous used in speech, it sounds very formal.

A: Large, big and great are often interchangeable and they all mean more than usual size, extent, amount, capacity, etc. Big is often used in combination to form compound adjectives (big-hearted, big-headed, etc).

Strictly speaking, large is used in reference to dimensions or quantity (a large studio, amount, etc). Big is often for weight, bulk or extent (a big baby, a big business, a big plan). Great describes the size or extent as being impressive, imposing or surprising (a great river, a great success).

Note:- In this connection, a large number of Chinese teachers and learners of English seem to think large is a more 'educated' word for big, but this is not true. A big-hearted person is kind and magnanimous, but a large-hearted person is a guy probably suffering from a swollen heart and needs to see a doctor.

Huge and enormous are interchangeable and basically means something very large or immense, usually size or some other quantity (a huge tent, an enormous range of goods).

Giant is usually used to describe a person or thing rather than anything abstract. It usually means great size or strength (a giant man), but could be applied to one's intellect or reputation (a giant among men is a man of considerable reputation or intellect).

Gigantic is somewhat the same as giant and also means very big, colossal or enormous -- but this time more often of size (a gigantic dome, a gigantic forecourt) but could also be used to describe a big mistake (it was a gigantic f*ckup).

Ginormous ("jI-nor-mus") is an informal and humorous adjective meaning someone or something that's so huge that it's nearly unbelievable or ridiculous (a ginormous 12-volume treatment of Greek and Arabic medicine for a nosebleed). Roughly the similar meaning is contained in these informal words: humongous (a humongous steak), jumbo, mega, whopping, honking and even astronomical (when used in humorous or figurative sense). None of those words are for formal writing or in exams, please (except perhaps astronomical).

Finally, there is massive. The literal meaning is large and heavy, or large and solid (a massive rampart of solid stone). More figuratively, massive means "exceptionally large" (massive crowds are expected by the police, massive differences in income).

A: They're synonyms (the same)
No difference

A: nothing is different between these two words.

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