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Humongous vs Brobdingnagian - What's the difference?

humongous | brobdingnagian |

As adjectives the difference between humongous and brobdingnagian

is that humongous is (informal) of an extremely large size while brobdingnagian is of or pertaining to brobdingnag.

As a noun brobdingnagian is

a creature from brobdingnag.

humongous

English

Alternative forms

* humungous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Of an extremely large size.

    • Synonyms

    * enormous * gigantic * immense * huge * massive * See also

    brobdingnagian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
  • (figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
  • * 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
    • 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.
  • * 1907 , , "Glamour" in His Own People ,
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 52:
    • Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * lilliputian

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A creature from Brobdingnag.
  • (figuratively) A giant.