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pantagruelian

pantagruelian adjective: huge, gigantic, enormous.

Adjective (1)

pantagruelian (comparative more pantagruelian, superlative most pantagruelian)

  1. Huge, gigantic, enormous.
    Synonyms:
    large
  2. Voracious, insatiable.
    Synonyms:
    voracious

Adjective (2) capitalized: Pantagruelian

Pantagruelian (comparative more Pantagruelian, superlative most Pantagruelian)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of pantagruelian.
    • Giant pheasants and thrushes, crisply roasted and garnished with rich sauces, a huge vat of potage de légumes, a tub of salade Niçoise, a side of bifteck drenched in gravy. This Pantagruelian feast, the doctor surmised, was a reflection of the frustration M. Testevin faced from the restrictions...1968, John G[rant] Fuller, chapter 6, in The Day of St. Anthony’s Fire, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 109
    • What still remains a mystery is how she managed to put away the entire midday meal that I had left for her, Ted, and Bill. And that this Pantagruelian triple lunch in no way diminished the gusto with which she silently tucked into her dinner, doing more than justice to sundry delectable coals of...1989, Dido Merwin, “Appendix II: Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath”, in Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 339

Synonyms of pantagruelian

Forms of pantagruelian

comparativemore pantagruelian
superlativemost pantagruelian
alternative formPantagruelian
comparativemore Pantagruelian
superlativemost Pantagruelian

Origin of pantagruelian

From François Rabelais' character Pantagruel, + -ian.

Words formed from pantagruelian

Questions about pantagruelian

What does pantagruelian mean?
Pantagruelian means huge, gigantic, enormous.
What part of speech is pantagruelian?
Pantagruelian is an adjective.

Words near pantagruelian in the dictionary

  1. pantagraph
  2. pantagraphic
  3. pantagraphical
  4. pantagraphs
  5. pantagraphy
  6. pantagruelian
  7. pantagruelianly
  8. pantagruelic
  9. pantagruelically
  10. Pantagrueline
  11. pantagruelism

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