| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Resembling a freak: freakish, freaky, grotesque. See USUAL. 2. Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal : walloping. Slang : whopping. See BIG. 3. Disgracefully and grossly offensive: atrocious, heinous, outrageous, scandalous, shocking. Archaic : enormous. See RIGHT.
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