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giant
 
NOUN:One that is extraordinarily large and powerful: behemoth, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan. Slang : whopper. See BEINGS, BIG.
ADJECTIVE:Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, 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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