mammoth

mammoth
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. huge, giant, gigantic, tremendous, prodigious, colossal, enormous. —n. elephant, behemoth. See size.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. gigantic, immense, enormous; see high 1 , large 1 , enormous .
See Synonym Study at enormous .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
huge, gigantic, elephantine, colossal, gargantuan, immense, enormous, stupendous, monstrous, titanic, prodigious, massive, Brobdingnagian.
ANT.: tiny, minute, microscopic, Lilliputian
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun One that is extraordinarily large and powerful: behemoth, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, monster, titan. Slang: whopper. See BEINGS, BIG. II adjective Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyan-esque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal: walloping. Slang: whopping. See BIG.

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