ginormously delicious
- adjective
- /dʒɪˈnɔrməsli dɪˈlɪʃəs/
- Informal
- She baked a ginormously delicious batch of chocolate chip cookies for the party.
Examples
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The wedding cake was ginormously delicious and everyone went back for seconds.
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We found a little café serving ginormously delicious pastries every morning.
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This cake is ginormously delicious!
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The pizza at Tony's is ginormously delicious.
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She baked a ginormously delicious batch of chocolate chip cookies for the party.
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The wedding cake was ginormously delicious and everyone went back for seconds.
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We found a little café serving ginormously delicious pastries every morning.
Synonyms
891
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
517
2.7
Very good and impressive
488
1.0
Very pleasant to taste
116
3.5
Very impressive and beautiful
16
3.7
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
13
5.1
Very pleasant to taste, especially of food or drink
8
8.8
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
3
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
Antonyms
How Tasty
- Informal
16
3.7
488
1.0
184
1.0
74
1.4
22
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
ginormously + delicious
The phrase is an adverbial intensifier + adjective: if a learner knows 'ginormously' as an intensifier meaning 'extremely/very' and 'delicious' meaning 'tasty', the combined meaning 'extremely tasty' is directly compositional. Although 'ginormously' is an informal blend, its function as an intensifier is transparent and parallels common intensifier patterns cross-linguistically, so a learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Ginormously delicious comes from the made-up word ginormous, formed from giant and enormous, which creates the image of a taste so big it feels like a giant bite. So people use it to say something is 'extremely tasty'.