gigundous mistake
- noun
- /ɡɪˈɡʌndəs mɪˈsteɪk/
- Informal
- She made a gigundous mistake in her calculations.
Examples
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Purchasing the faulty equipment turned out to be a gigundous mistake for the company.
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Forgetting the anniversary dinner was a gigundous mistake that he regretted for months.
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Calling the wrong client was a gigundous mistake in the middle of the negotiations.
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That was a gigundous mistake!
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Forgetting the anniversary dinner was a gigundous mistake that he regretted for months.
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Purchasing the faulty equipment turned out to be a gigundous mistake for the company.
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Calling the wrong client was a gigundous mistake in the middle of the negotiations.
Synonyms
A wrong action or decision
A wrong belief, calculation, or action
A careless mistake that causes problems or embarrassment
A wrong estimate of numbers or plans that causes problems
A very serious error that causes great harm or loss
A serious, embarrassing mistake often caused by confusion or poor planning
A big mistake that causes serious problems
A very serious mistake that causes big problems, often because someone was careless
An embarrassing error caused by automatic text filters that change words into something silly
An error in calculating numbers or amounts
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
gigundous + mistake
The first constituent 'gigundous' is not a recognized English word or clearly analyzable into familiar morphemes, so a B1 learner who only 'knows the constituent words' would not know its meaning; only 'mistake' is transparent. Because one constituent is unknown/nonstandard (and the intended sense 'very large' is not reliably recoverable), the overall phrase is not compositionally transparent to learners.
Etymology
Gigundous mistake may come from joining the words gigantic and humongous, giving a clear picture of a mistake so big it cannot be ignored. So, it means 'an extremely large or serious mistake'.