英语词汇“gigantesque”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

gigantesque

释义

gigantesque, a.|dʒaɪgænˈtɛsk|
[a. F. gigantesque, ad. It. gigantesco, f. gigante, ad. L. gigant-em giant.]
Having the characteristics of a giant; befitting a giant.
1834New Monthly Mag. XLI. 468 Everything..was gigantesque and awful.1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 302 How gigantesque the campanile is in its mass and height.1875Contemp. Rev. XXVII. 66 All gigantesque, eccentric, distorted, extravagant art is barbarous.1888W. H. Payne tr. Compayré's Hist. Pedagogy 95 Rabelais wrote for giants, and it is natural that he should demand gigantesque efforts of them.
absol.1821New Monthly Mag. II. 123 This play abounds with two vices..ringing changes upon words, and a disposition to the unnatural and gigantesque.1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe ii. (1894) 59 The expressions savour rather strongly of the gigantesque.

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