extremely large synonym enormous, huge巨大的;庞大的 a gigantic house 巨大的房子 The problem was beginning to take on gigantic proportions. 这个问题开始变得非常严重。 The bomb caused a gigantic explosion. 炸弹引起了巨大的爆炸。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGigantic is used with these nouns:- house
- proportion
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘like or suited to a giant’): from Old French, via Latin from Greek gigas, gigant- + -ic.