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Giant

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

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Big 84% connected

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

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Big 84% connected

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

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Large 84% connected

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious;…

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Large 84% connected

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious;…

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Broader term 9

Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Anomaly 76% connected

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Enterprise 76% connected

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Personage 76% connected

Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.

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Star 76% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Argus 76% connected

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

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Cyclops 76% connected

One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sici…

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Giantess 76% connected

A woman of extraordinary size.

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Leviathan 76% connected

An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.

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Ogre 76% connected

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.

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Behemoth 74% connected

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

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Behemoth 74% connected

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

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Gigantic 74% connected

Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

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Gigantic 74% connected

Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

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Synonym 8

Behemoth 92% connected

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

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Colossus 92% connected

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of A…

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Elephantine 92% connected

Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantin…

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Gargantuan 92% connected

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

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Hulk 92% connected

The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

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Monster 92% connected

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.

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Titan 92% connected

Titanic.

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Whale 92% connected

Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunte…

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