Brobdingnagianとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Brobdingnag +‎ -ian.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/

形容詞

Brobdingnagian (comparative more Brobdingnagian, superlative most Brobdingnagian)

1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
2. (figurative) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gigantic

   Antonyms: lilliputian; see also Thesaurus:tiny

   • 1899, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Keeper of Conscience”, in “They that Walk in Darkness”: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, OCLC 1920973, section VII, page 289:

     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.

   • 1907, Booth Tarkington, “Glamour”, in His Own People:

     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.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, page 52:

     Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.