Gargantuan vs Diminutive - What's the difference?
gargantuan | diminutive |
As adjectives the difference between gargantuan and diminutive is that gargantuan is (obsolete) of the giant gargantua or his appetite while diminutive is very small. As a noun diminutive is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
gargantuan English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Huge; immense; tremendous.
Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.
Synonyms
* colossal
* enormous
* giant
* huge
* humongous, humungous
* immense
* See also
References
* (etymology) Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))
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diminutive English
Alternative forms
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Adjective
( en adjective)
Very small.
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Serving to diminish.
* Shaftesbury
- diminutive of liberty
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tiny
Antonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic
* augmentative
Noun
( wikipedia diminutive)
( en noun)
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
Synonyms
* nomen deminutivum
Antonyms
* augmentative
Related terms
* diminish
* dimwit
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