brobdingnagian

• Adjektiv, das von dem fiktiven Land Brobdingnag aus Jonathan Swifts Roman „Gullivers Reisen“ stammt und etwas von riesiger oder gigantischer Größe beschreibt.

An adjective derived from the fictional land of Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', used to describe something of immense or gigantic size.

1. Enormous or giganticC2formal

   Of huge size; gigantic; colossal.

   Gigantisch

   • The new skyscraper was a Brobdingnagian structure that dominated the skyline.
   • He had a Brobdingnagian appetite, eating enough for three people.
   • The company's Brobdingnagian profits surprised all the analysts.

   Synonymecolossalenormousgigantichugeimmensemammothmassivemonstrousprodigioustremendous

   Antonymediminutivelittlemicroscopicminusculeminutepetitesmalltiny

2. Relating to BrobdingnagC2formal

   Characteristic of the imaginary land of giants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

   brobdingnagisch

   • The Brobdingnagian king was a wise and just ruler.
   • Gulliver felt like a tiny insect in the Brobdingnagian world.
   • The Brobdingnagian landscape was filled with oversized plants and animals.