Gargantuan vs Diminutive - What's the difference?
gargantuan | diminutive |
(obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Huge; immense; tremendous.
Of a tremendous size, volume, degree, etc.
Very small.
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(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
As adjectives the difference between gargantuan and diminutive
is that gargantuan is of the giant Gargantua or his appetite while diminutive is very small.As a noun diminutive is
a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.gargantuan
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* colossal * enormous * giant * huge * humongous, humungous * immense * See alsoReferences
* (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))diminutive
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Alternative forms
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- diminutive of liberty
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tinyAntonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic * augmentativeNoun
(wikipedia diminutive) (en noun)- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
