giant

giant
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. jumbo, monster, titan, colossus. See size. Ant., midget, dwarf.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. monstrous, colossal, enormous; see large 1 .
n.
1. [A gigantic humanlike being]
Syn. ogre, Cyclops, Titan, Olympian, colossus, Gargantuan creature, Goliath, Antaeus, Brobdingnagian, man-mountain, Hercules, Atlas; see also monster .
Ant. dwarf*, pigmy, mannikin.
2. [Anything very large]
Syn. mammoth, behemoth, colossus, monster, whale, elephant, jumbo, leviathan, mountain, hulk, lump, bulk, whopper*, super-duper*.
Ant. dwarf*, mite, midget.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
titan, Gargantua, colossus, behemoth, *whopper, *bruiser, hulk, Goliath, Brobdingnagian, Amazon, Cyclops, ogre, giantess.
ANT.: midget, dwarf, *shrimp, *Lilliputian
II
a.
huge, gigantic, gargantuan, mammoth, colossal, enormous, prodigious, Brobdingnagian, titanic, Herculean, elephantine, towering.
ANT.: tiny, microscopic, *Lilliputian
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun One that is extraordinarily large and powerful: behemoth, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan. Slang: whopper. See BEINGS, BIG. II adjective Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyan-esque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal: walloping. Slang: whopping. See BIG.

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