I like lyric better than epic.
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Epic
/ˈɛp.ɪk/
Synonyms for "epic" (166 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (49)
Related words (83)
madrigalmammothmightymock heroicmonodymonstermonstrousmountainousmythnarrationnarrativenarrative poemnursery rhymeodepalinodepastoralpastoral elegypastorelapastourellepetrarchan sonnet
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pierianpindaric odepoempoeticprodigiousprofoundprothalamiumrhapsodicrhapsodicalrhymeromancerondeaurondelroundelroundelayrunicsagasapphicsapphic odesatiresestinashakespearean sonnetslokasongsonnetsonnet sequencestorystupendoustaletankatensotenzonethrenodytitanictoweringtremendoustriolettroubadour poemverseverseletversiclevillanellevirelayyarn
Noun(16 words)
mahabharatamonumentalnarrative poemnational sagaodysseysperiod dramapoetic grandeurradramayanaremarkablesagasagassavageshittitanvast
Adjective(3 words)
Related word relations
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More general
16 entriescolloquial adjectivedescriptorevaluative adjectivefilmhistorical narrativehistorical textliterary adjectiveliteraturemagnitude descriptormedianarrativepoempoetic adjectivescale descriptortextverse form
More specific
17 entriesBeowulfGilgameshHomericIliadVirgilianbiographical epiccatastrophicfounding mythheroicmemorablemonumentalnational sagaorigin storyremarkablespectaculartransformative
Showing 16 of 17 words.
Collocations
9 entriesepic battleepic filmepic heroepic journeyepic poemepic scaleepic traditionnational epicoral epic
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
18 translations across 11 languages.
Danish
1 entries- storslået adj (extraordinary)
Dutch
1 entries- episch adj (extraordinary)
Finnish
2 entries- mahtava adj (extraordinary)
- mieletön adj (extraordinary)
German
4 entries- Wahnsinns- adj (extraordinary)
- außergewöhnlich adj (extraordinary)
- denkwürdig adj (extraordinary)
- toll adj (extraordinary)
Japanese
1 entries- 壮大な adj (extraordinary)
Norwegian
1 entries- storslått adj (extraordinary)
Polish
1 entries- epicki adj (extraordinary)
Portuguese
2 entries- extraordinário adj (extraordinary)
- épico adj (extraordinary)
Spanish
2 entries- epopéyico adj (extraordinary)
- épico adj (extraordinary)
Swedish
1 entries- episk adj (extraordinary)
Thai
1 entries- สูงส่ง adj (extraordinary)
Sample sentences
33 total sentences available.
Amazing! This moving a story is a first for me! It's truly an epic among epics!
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Surrounded by hordes of vampires, Christopher Columbus once had an epic sword duel with Count Dracula in the latter's castle. After the Count cut off Columbus's hand, Columbus calmly picked it up, put it back in place, and proceeded to best the Count.
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It was a hamburger of epic dimensions!
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