ginormous
English
editEtymology
editBlend of gigantic + enormous, originally 1940s military slang.[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editginormous (comparative more ginormous, superlative most ginormous)
- (informal) Very large.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:large
- 1986, Ron Friedman, The Transformers: The Movie, spoken by Jazz:
- This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.
- 2019, Green Bank Observatory, Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist:
- “Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.”
Derived terms
editTranslations
editvery large
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Adam Gorlick (2007 July 10) “New Dictionary Includes 'Ginormous'”, in Washington Post[1], archived from the original on 2011-08-14: “Merriam-Webster traces ginormous back to 1948, when it appeared in a British dictionary of military slang.”
Further reading
edit- “ginormous”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “ginormous”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.