Huge; colossal

Usage examples of titanic.

And yet, he reasoned-reassured himself-despite the changes and fresh knowledge, the possibility of a titanic breakthrough with the work he had been doing still was possible, still could come at any time.

Upon this makeshift stake Li had been impaled through back and breastbone, as if he had been hurled there by a titanic force.

Titanic atom existing in space with precisely the same inclination for Unity which characterized, in the beginning, the actual atoms after their irradiation throughout the Universal sphere.

Crime had struck in a titanic way, as planned by Willard Mance, Head No.

Before him, the far side sloped gradually down, lending the entire ridge the appearance of a titanic shoulder-blade.

The stories were that titanic battles were fought above Stye Head and on Honister between rival bands of robbers, disputing their plunder, and it was true enough that many a time, walking up Honister, you would find a dead man there, by the roadside, his throat cut or a knife in his belly and often enough stripped naked.

GRT equations, Gamow, working with Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, modeled the explosion of a titanic superbomb in which, as the fireball expanded, the rapidly falling temperature would pass a point where the heavier nuclei formed from nuclear fusions in the first few minutes would cease being broken down again.

Titanic echoes thundered, shrieked, and wailed in every conceivable tone.

To right and left on a thwartship line just back of them towered the chimneys softly giving out their titanic respirations.

There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.

Using a swell of donations, the Jihad Council had commissioned a titanic statue of the saintly Manion the Innocent, which would welcome all vessels arriving from the dangers of deep space.

The best officers, the finest equipment, a surprising percentage of the wealth of the United Ankani Worlds went into those titanic, fantastically beautiful ships which touched down on an Ankani planet only long enough to refit, recrew and reprovision before blinking out again on a computed course into the dense starfields.

The manager of the second was eager that I should include the exact address of his premises in my prospective best-seller -- which in his opinion ought to be about an attempt to refloat the torpedoed ship, in the style of Raise the Titanic, and featuring neo-Nazi conspirators.

It came to the clearing, noticed its squashed companion, and considered the titanic struggle.

It is a demon so titanic that once unchained, it might not be chained again.