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giant-like

  • a word derived from giant.

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“Ice giant-like planets are some of the most common ones out there,” Bethany Ehlmann, a professor at Caltech and one of the steering committee members on the Decadal, tells The Verge.

From The Verge • Apr. 19, 2022

I cannot imagine that Og, King of Bashan, could have looked more giant-like.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

The degrees belong to any beings or ideas that may be known or conceived of as possessing quality; as, "untamed thought, great, giant-like, enormous;" "the commonest speech;" "It is a nobler valor;" "the largest soul."

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

Near the entrance of the dark archway, the tall, giant-like figure stopped and turned round, and Lady Ing� now saw that his face was concealed by a black iron visor.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Yesterday thy head was brown, as are the flowing locks of love, In the bright blue sky I watch'd thee towering, giant-like, above.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various