- The last chapter we had to read was ginormous!
Ginormous
adjective; blending and clipping
Extremely great in size or power. In this case, “enormous” and “gigantic” are doublets, one from Latin and one from Greek, respectively. “Ginormous” combines the two synonyms to increase the power of this adjective, and emphasize the extreme.
Etymology : [“gi-“ clipped from “gigantic”, Greek gigantikos, from gigant-, gigas giant, meaning exceeding the usual or expected (as in size, force, or prominence), and “-ormous” from “enormous” from the Latin enormis, from e, ex out of + norma rule]
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Last modified: 10 June 2008