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In some senses, brobdingnagian is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
noun
A creature from Brobdingnag.
A giant.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Brobdingnagian.