Titanesque
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of Titanesque
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Titanesque′, like the Titans, Titanic in character.—n.
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And it would be a titanesque job to try to convince everybody on this planet that the climate IS really changing, mostly for worse.
From BBC
Two nondescript Pagan gentlemen of Titanesque proportions had joined the watch of the conventional leonine twins, and the big gate now stood hospitably open, over it swinging the new sign in gallant crimson and white, that announced to all the world that Outside Inn was even at that moment, at its most punctilious service.
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He himself was already well within the narrow opening, sprawled out red and disheveled and Titanesque on the cage floor.
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Suddenly Max Graub rose, his bulky form and great height giving him an almost Titanesque appearance in the gloom of the chamber.
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