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adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Of or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
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adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Having great size, or great force, power, or strength.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, comparable, not-comparable, usually
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adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable, usually
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adj
Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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adj
Of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: titanian, titaniferous
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adj
Of or relating to the Titans, a race of giant gods in Greek mythology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
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Synonyms: Titanian, titanical
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adj
Having great size, or great force, power, or strength.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, comparable, not-comparable, usually
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Synonyms: Titanian, titanical, ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
Antonyms: compact, fun size, fun-sized, ickle, insignificant, lit'l, little, low, modest, mini, petty, pint-sized, pocket-size, slim, slight, small, small-scale, undersized, wee, wurly
adj
Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable, usually
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name
The RMS Titanic, an ocean liner, thought by the public to be unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
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noun
A venture that fails spectacularly, especially one perceived as overconfident.
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adjective satellite
of great force or power
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
See Titanic.
From titan(ium) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns), in the case of sense 1 (“of or relating to titanium”) modelled after French titanique.
From Late Latin Titanicus, or its etymon Ancient Greek Τιτανικός (Titanikós, “of or relating to the Titans”), from Τιτᾶνες (Titânes, “Titans”) + -ικός (-ikós, “suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives”). Τιτᾶνες (Titânes) is the nominative or vocative plural of Τῑτᾱ́ν (Tītā́n, “a Titan”), and then possibly: * from τῐ́σῐς (tĭ́sĭs, “payment; atonement, penalty, punishment, retribution, reward; vengeance”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwey- (“to pay; to avenge”); or * from τιταίνω (titaínō, “to extend, stretch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to extend, stretch; to spread; to exert, push to the limit, strain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to extend, stretch”); or * from τίτο (títo, “sun; day”), originally borrowed from Anatolian. The English word is analyzable as Titan + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns).
The proper noun is derived from Titanic (etymology 1, adjective senses 1 and 2.1), as the ship was the largest and thought to be the strongest in the world at the time it was constructed. The common noun is derived from the name of the ship.
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