English words for 'any creature of exceptional size'
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noun
- any creature of exceptional size
- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- an unusually large enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very tall and large person.
- A very large organization.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- An eoten or jotun.
- (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
adj
noun
- (by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
- A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- (figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
adj
noun
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
- (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
verb
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
noun
adj
noun
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
noun
- (by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
- (biblical) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.
- (figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
noun
- something especially big or impressive of its kind
- One who, or something which, whacks.
- (slang) A radio amateur who is keenly interested in emergency response and may travel to the sites of emergencies.
- (informal) Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”).
- (informal) Synonym of whopper (“anything large”).
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- A kind of large donkey.
noun
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- (India, Kenya) An elephant.
- (British English) A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- (paganism, historical) Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
- (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
adj
noun
- the largest or most massive thing of its kind
- monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
- (biblical, mythology) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
- A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.
- (political science) Sometimes in the form Leviathan: based on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one.
adj
noun
- largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
- Any of other large squid of other families, about which less is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)
- Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)
noun
- (slang) Anything impressively large; a whopper.
- (slang) The telephone.
- (slang) A loud burst of flatulence.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- One who honks.
- (informal) A large nose.
- (informal) A wild goose.
- common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
- informal terms for the nose
- a driver who causes their car's horn to make a loud honking sound
noun
- Any huge body or structure.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
noun
adj
name
- A goatish giant.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek of mythological origin; rare in English.
- A surname.
- An epithet for Athena, always used together with the name, as Pallas Athena, rather than alone.
- One of the Titans, according to Hesiod the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia.
- (astronomy) The second asteroid discovered, and third largest, (2) Pallas.
noun
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
adj
verb
adj
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
- (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- (augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
- of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
- ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
- the most important and magnificent in adornment
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- large and impressive in physical size or extent
- of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
- of or befitting a lord
- used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
noun
- (music, plural "grands") A grand piano
- (colloquial, automotive, plural "grand") A thousand RPM.
- (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
- A grandparent or grandchild.
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs
adj
- Of great size, large.
- Popular.
- (of a city) Populous.
- (informal) Important or significant.
- Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
- (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Specifically, big-breasted.
- (informal, slang, rare, of someone's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Having a large penis.
- (informal) Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
- (informal) Fat.
- (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- exhibiting self-importance
- given or giving freely
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- prodigious
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- serious or severe
- (of animals) fully developed
- feeling self-importance
- significant
- loud and firm
- marked by intense physical force
- conspicuous in position or importance
adv
noun
- (university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- (ageplay) The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- Someone or something that is large in stature.
- (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
noun
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- A hippie.
- (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.
- A drug addict.
- (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
- A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
- (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
- (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
verb
- lose one's nerve
- (slang, ambitransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
adj
noun
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- (countable) An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.
- (historical, originally) A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
noun
- any creature of exceptional size
- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- an unusually large enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very tall and large person.
- A very large organization.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- An eoten or jotun.
- (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
adj
noun
- (by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
- A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- (figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
noun
adj
noun
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
noun
- (by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
- (biblical) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.
- (figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
noun
- something especially big or impressive of its kind
- One who, or something which, whacks.
- (slang) A radio amateur who is keenly interested in emergency response and may travel to the sites of emergencies.
- (informal) Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”).
- (informal) Synonym of whopper (“anything large”).
noun
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- (India, Kenya) An elephant.
- (British English) A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- (paganism, historical) Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
- (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
adj
noun
- the largest or most massive thing of its kind
- monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
- (biblical, mythology) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
- A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.
- (political science) Sometimes in the form Leviathan: based on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one.
adj
noun
- largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
- Any of other large squid of other families, about which less is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)
- Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)
noun
- (slang) Anything impressively large; a whopper.
- (slang) The telephone.
- (slang) A loud burst of flatulence.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- One who honks.
- (informal) A large nose.
- (informal) A wild goose.
- common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
- informal terms for the nose
- a driver who causes their car's horn to make a loud honking sound
noun
- Any huge body or structure.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
noun
adj
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- A kind of large donkey.
adj
noun
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
- (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
verb
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
noun
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
- (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
- (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
adj
verb
noun
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- A hippie.
- (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.
- A drug addict.
- (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
- A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
- (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
- (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
verb
- lose one's nerve
- (slang, ambitransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
adj
noun
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- (countable) An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.
- (historical, originally) A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
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adj
noun
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
- (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
verb
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- A kind of large donkey.
adj
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
- (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- (music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- (augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional
- of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
- ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
- the most important and magnificent in adornment
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- large and impressive in physical size or extent
- of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
- of or befitting a lord
- used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
noun
- (music, plural "grands") A grand piano
- (colloquial, automotive, plural "grand") A thousand RPM.
- (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
- A grandparent or grandchild.
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs
adj
- Of great size, large.
- Popular.
- (of a city) Populous.
- (informal) Important or significant.
- Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
- (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Specifically, big-breasted.
- (informal, slang, rare, of someone's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Having a large penis.
- (informal) Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
- (informal) Fat.
- (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- exhibiting self-importance
- given or giving freely
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- prodigious
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- serious or severe
- (of animals) fully developed
- feeling self-importance
- significant
- loud and firm
- marked by intense physical force
- conspicuous in position or importance
adv
noun
- (university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- (ageplay) The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- Someone or something that is large in stature.
- (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.