GARGANTUAN

elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo

(adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky; “a jumbo jet”; “jumbo shrimp”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

gargantuan (comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)

(obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

Huge; immense; tremendous.

Synonyms: colossal, enormous, giant, huge, humongous, immense, Thesaurus:gigantic

Source: Wiktionary


Gar*gan"tu*an, a. Etym: [From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.]

Definition: Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ADMIRABLE

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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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