- giantlike
- adjective see giant I
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
giantlike
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giantlike — adjective Like a giant; enormous. In the deepening dusk her fittest season her dark form grew almost giantlike, as she strode again and again past that door, and looked up to the windows … Wiktionary
giantlike — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective : resembling a giant a man giantlike in strength and stature … Useful english dictionary
giantlike — adj. resembling a giant; exceptionally large and powerful … English contemporary dictionary
giant — giantlike, adj. /juy euhnt/, n. 1. (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc. 2. a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend: a giant in her field; an intellectual giant … Universalium
giant — I. noun Etymology: Middle English giaunt, from Anglo French geant, from Latin gigant , gigas, from Greek Date: 14th century 1. a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength 2. a. a living being of great size b. a person of… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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Cyclopean — Synonyms and related words: Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, astronomic, colossal, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth,… … Moby Thesaurus
Gargantuan — Synonyms and related words: Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, giant,… … Moby Thesaurus
Herculean — Synonyms and related words: Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Homeric, abstruse, abysmal, arduous, astronomic, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, colossal, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding,… … Moby Thesaurus
Homeric — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, astronomic, bardic, bucolic, colossal, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic … Moby Thesaurus
