| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A perversely bad, cruel, or wicked person: archfiend, beast, devil, fiend, ghoul, ogre, tiger, vampire. See KIND. 2. A person or animal that is abnormally formed: freak, monstrosity. See USUAL. 3. One that is extraordinarily large and powerful: behemoth, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, titan. Slang : whopper. See BEINGS, BIG. | | ADJECTIVE: | Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal : walloping. Slang : whopping. See BIG.
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