Search the Dictionary

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

An account or description of giants.

A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

Same as Homoplast.

A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins. -- Hy`o*ga"noid, a.

Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic. Sir W. Hamilton.

ss the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. The notorious inelegance of her figure. T. Hook.

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

In an inelegant manner.

Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.

Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

Inorganic. Locke.

In an inorganic manner.