titanic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   enormous in size, strength, force, or importance

   Thousands of soldiers were drawn into the titanic struggle for the city.

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Simplified etymology

Titanic derives from the Titans, the gigantic and powerful gods of Greek mythology. It consequently came to mean “of exceptional strength, size, or power” in the early 17th century.

From Late Latin Titanicus and Greek Titanikos, 'of the Titans,' from Titan, the name of one of the primordial divine beings of Greek myth. Their legendary power and size gave lowercase titanic its figurative sense 'colossal or immensely powerful.'

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