brobdingnagian

1. (figurative) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.Examples: "When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough."; "The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals."; "Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene."Synonyms: ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sizedAntonyms: lilliputianfiguratively