gargantuan

gar-GAN-choo-unadj

Meaning enormous, especially in bulk or appetite

Memory hook GAR-GANT: a GARDEN GIANT. Omar grows a watermelon so big that the whole family has to push to roll it out of the garden. It is gargantuan.

Omar grew a gargantuan watermelon that took four people to lift.

In context The puppy’s appetite was gargantuan: it finished its own bowl, the cat’s bowl and half a loaf of bread before anyone noticed.

Similar huge, enormous, gigantic, vast

Opposite tiny, minute, minuscule

From Gargantua, a jolly giant with an enormous appetite in a French comic tale of the 1500s.

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