🇬🇧🇨🇳 gargantuan - 庞大的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "gargantuan" ("庞大的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Gargantuan means extremely, amazingly huge—so big that it seems almost impossible. If something is gargantuan, it’s much bigger than normal, like a giant’s sandwich, a mountain of homework, or a cookie the size of a car.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Mom baked a gargantuan cookie, but she said we had to share, which instantly became the hardest math problem ever.

Our snowman was gargantuan, and the neighbors kept asking if it needed its own address.

We made a gargantuan pancake that had to be flipped with two spatulas and one prayer.

Grandpa tells gargantuan stories about the fish he caught, and every year the fish gets even bigger.

There was a gargantuan spider in the bathroom, but when Dad went to see it, it had shrunk to the size of a dog.

At the fair, a gargantuan pumpkin loomed over the stall. A girl stared; the gust lifted its gargantuan leaf and a gargantuan beetle clung to the rind. The crowd gasped as the pumpkin rolled, a gargantuan wheel toward the fountain. Children pushed; the town cheered when it stopped — a gargantuan laugh broke the fear.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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