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Gargantuan vs Whopping - What's the difference?

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Gargantuan is a related term of whopping.


As adjectives the difference between gargantuan and whopping

is that gargantuan is (obsolete) of the giant gargantua or his appetite while whopping is exceptionally large or great.

As a verb whopping is

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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))

    whopping

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • exceptionally large or great
  • It weighed a whopping 700 pounds, when it was full.

    Verb

    (head)