titanic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the Titans.
  2. adjective Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep.
  3. adjective Of enormous scope, power, or influence: "a deepening sense that some titanic event lay just beyond the horizon” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
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  • The thundering impact was titanic, and I lost consciousness for some time. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • Beethoven's humor was titanic, heroic, on a grand scale, always with what might be called a certain seriousness about it like that of a lion at play. —  Beethoven
  • As UMNO's credibility do a titanic, the chances of them falling out of federal government seats look brighter every day. —  WordPress.com News
  • Technorati Tags: mob1900, titanic, abandon ship!, leadership in distress, GERAKAN, MCA, BN, sinking ship —  Mob's Crib
  • Pebblehead originally planned to call his titanic masterpiece —  Hooting Yard
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  1. =F. titanique =Spanish Titánico =Portuguese Italian Titanico, from Latin as if *Titanicus (for which Titaniacus), from Greek Τιτανικός, of or pertaining to a Titan or the Titans, from Τιτάν, Titan: see Titan.
  2. from titanium + -ic.
 

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