galactic
adjective
ga·lac·tic
gə-ˈlak-tik 
Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of galactic in a Sentence
a galactic serving of soda that would have been enough for three moviegoers
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The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the galactic duo in 2013 in visible light, seen on the left in the slider below, but Webb’s image captures previously unseen details through infrared.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2024
The stakes in Marvel movies keep getting higher, from world-ending threats to galactic crises and the collapse of the multiverse.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 July 2024
This may be because Omega Centauri was originally the core of a young galaxy, with the black hole being a teenage galactic core that would have eventually grown to a supermassive black hole.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
They are located about halfway between Earth and the galactic center and are found in a thick-wall torus shape revolving around the galaxy's center.
—Georgina Torbet, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2024
The stakes in Marvel movies keep getting higher, from world-ending threats to galactic crises and the collapse of the multiverse.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 July 2024
This may be because Omega Centauri was originally the core of a young galaxy, with the black hole being a teenage galactic core that would have eventually grown to a supermassive black hole.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
They are located about halfway between Earth and the galactic center and are found in a thick-wall torus shape revolving around the galaxy's center.
—Georgina Torbet, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
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“Galactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galactic. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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galactic
adjective
ga·lac·tic
gə-ˈlak-tik
: of or relating to a galaxy
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