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Dictionary: ti·tan·ic1   (tī-tăn'ĭk) pronunciation
 
adj.
  1. Titanic Of or relating to the Titans.
    1. Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep.
    2. Of enormous scope, power, or influence: “a deepening sense that some titanic event lay just beyond the horizon” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
titanically ti·tan'i·cal·ly adv.
ti·tan·ic2 (tī-tăn'ĭk, -tā'nĭk, tĭ-) pronunciation
adj.

Relating to or containing titanium, especially with valence 4.


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IN BRIEF: Of great force or power.

pronunciation We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

 
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of great force or power


 
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