Synonyms for giant
ˈdʒaɪ əntgi·ant

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1. giantadjective

   Synonyms:
   gigantic, vast, enormous, colossal, prodigious, immense

2. giantadjective

   Very large.

   Synonyms:
   immense, prodigious, colossal, enormous, vast, gigantic

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1. giantnoun

   any creature of exceptional size

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   small, little

2. colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titannoun

   a person of exceptional importance and reputation

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   little, small

3. giantnoun

   an unusually large enterprise

   "Walton built a retail giant"

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   little, small

4. giant, hulk, heavyweight, whalenoun

   a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   little, small

5. giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossusnoun

   someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

   Synonyms:
   devil, demon, monster, lusus naturae, teras, goliath, colossus, whale, titan, monstrosity, fiend, giant star, hulk, heavyweight, behemoth, ogre, freak

   Antonyms:
   small, little

6. giantnoun

   an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   little, small

7. giant star, giantadjective

   a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, whale, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth

   Antonyms:
   little, small

8. elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumboadjective

   of great mass; huge and bulky

   "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"

   Synonyms:
   jumbo, gargantuan, elephantine

   Antonyms:
   little, small

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Enterprise
   • Imaginary Being
   • Important Person

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. giantnoun

   Synonyms:
   monster, cyclops, colossus, hercules, huge man

2. giantadjective

   Synonyms:
   huge, GIGANTIC

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1. giantnoun

   Synonyms:
   colossus, monster, hercules, goliath, titan, cyclops, brobdingnagian, ogre

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1. List of paraphrases for "giant":

   gigante, géant, giants, reus, gigantic, magnate, huge, bellwether, enormous, jumbo, mega, mammoth, colossus, titan, redcedar, juggernaut, phat, mogul, awesome, immense, massive

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1. James Hilterbrand:

   To go from what was a high school rugby paddock to the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs is indicative of the level of professionalism that's come to the game, (USA Rugby) is no longer a sleeping giant as everyone wants to call it, it's woken up and it's happening – I think it's just going through breakfast at the moment.

2. Carrie Fisher:

   She's a prisoner of a giant testicle who has a lot of saliva going on and she does not want to wear that thing and it's ultimately that chain, which you're now indicating is some sort of accessory to SM, that is used to kill the giant saliva testicle, that's asinine.

3. Land Management staffer Craig McCaa:

   I initially thought, and several people thought, it could be some rope that snagged on the bottom of the river with chunks of ice, other people have mentioned everything from sea monster to giant sturgeon.

4. Ryan Zeigler:

   Understanding how volcanism works on other planets lets us understand how the whole solar system formed. So if we want to know how we went from a giant ball of dust to nine planets orbiting around the sun... this is how we're going to do it; studies like this, on rocks like this.

5. Land Management staffer Craig McCaa:

   Other people have mentioned everything from sea monster to giant sturgeon.