Word of the Day – Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian (adj)

brob-din-ag-ee-an

of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.

Brobdingnagian was first recorded in 1725–30 and comes from the name Brobdingnag, a fictional place from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. In Brobdingnag, everything was of enormous size and its opposite in the book was Lilliput, where everything was tiny. Something Lilliputian is extremely small.

Example sentences

“We hiked through the forest, and came across a Brobdingnagian beech that towered above all others”