Associations to the word «Brobdingnagian»
Wiktionary
BROBDINGNAGIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
BROBDINGNAGIAN, adjective. (figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
BROBDINGNAGIAN, noun. A creature from Brobdingnag.
BROBDINGNAGIAN, noun. (figuratively) A giant.
Dictionary definition
BROBDINGNAGIAN, adjective. Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag.
BROBDINGNAGIAN, adjective. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.