Crossword Dictionary
titanic
adjective
Of exceptional strength, size, or power.
synonyms
colossal, gigantic, gargantuan, Herculean
examples:
‘Now however, her mind was overwhelmed with concern for her father; she'd also felt the titanic bloom of power and the shattering of the barriers.’
‘NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the aftermath of a titanic explosion that wracked the elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4636.’
‘‘There's something terribly attractive about a titanic explosion, as long as it occurs far enough away,’ Woosley said.’
‘Type II's derive from a supermassive red giant whose core collapses when it runs out of fuel, and then rebounds in a titanic explosion.’
gargantuan
elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo - a
of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
synonyms
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
in a sentence
a creature of gargantuan proportions
people seem to be buying ever more gargantuan SUVs these days
etymology
"enormous," 1590s, from Gargantua, name of the voracious giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle (v.).