brobdingnag
101brobdingnagian vision — Also known in the literature in the (misspelled) variants brobdignagian vision and brodnigagian vision. The term brobdingnagian vision is indebted to Brobdingnag, the name of a fictitious country inhabited by huge people, featuring in the… …
102GULLIVER — the hero of Swift s satirical romance entitled Gulliver s Travels, which records his adventures among the pigmies of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the quacks of Laputa, and the HOUYHNHNMS (q.v.) …
103mighty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. powerful, momentous, forceful. See power. Ant., weak, powerless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Strong] Syn. powerful, stalwart, muscular; see strong 1 . 2. [Powerful through influence] Syn. great, all… …
104Lilliputian — Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) was a great English satirist. His most celebrated work, and the one for which he is best known, is Gulliver s Travels. It includes an account of the travels of one Captain Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, a country whose …
105Brobdingnagian — [ˌbrɒbdɪŋ nagɪən] adjective very large; gigantic. noun a giant. Origin C18: from Brobdingnag, a land in Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels (1726) where everything is of huge size …
106huge — huge, vast, immense, enormous, elephantine, mammoth, giant, gigantic, gigantean, colossal, gargantuan, Herculean, cyclopean, titanic, Brobdingnagian are comparable when meaning exceedingly or excessively large. Huge is a rather general term… …
107immense — adj 1. vast, extensive, broad, wide, expansive, Archaic. vasty, Archaic. immane; voluminous, bulky, capacious, massive; huge, enormous, large, big, prodigious; great, towering, staggering, great big, stupendous, tremendous, Sl. humongous, Sl.… …
108large — adj 1. big, great, huge, enormous, colossal, herculean, mighty; prodigious, gigantic, giant, gigan tean, monstrous, monumental; stupendous, tremendous, towering, staggering, imposing, mountainous; tall, high, grand, grandiose, great big, Sl.… …
109vast — adj 1. immense, extensive, broad, wide, expansive, Archaic. vasty, Archaic. immane; voluminous, bulky, capacious, massive; huge, enormous, Archaic. enorm, large, big, prodigious; stupendous, great, towering, staggering, tremendous, Sl. humongous …
110Brobdingnagian — Brob•ding•nag•i•an [[t]ˌbrɒb dɪŋˈnæg i ən[/t]] adj. lit. cv of huge size; gigantic • Etymology: after the land of Brobdingnag in Swift s Gulliver s Travels (1726) …
