ginormousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dʒaɪˈnɔːməs/
• (General American) IPA: /dʒaɪˈnɔɹməs/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)məs

形容詞

ginormous (comparative more ginormous, superlative most ginormous)

1. (colloquial) 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.

   • 1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World: A Disney Girls Super Special, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.

   • 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.”

派生語

参考

• hunormous
• gigantuan

参照

Further reading

• “ginormous”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “ginormous”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.