Bunyanesque

adjective

Definition of Bunyanesquenext
as in mammoth

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  1. mammoth
  2. colossal
  3. prodigious
  4. gargantuan
  5. titanic
  6. cosmic
  7. gigantic
  8. cyclopean
Adjective
  • With Thursday’s sign-off by the California Public Utilities Commission, the mammoth merger is expected to close next week.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Last year, the Portland Art Museum debuted the results of its mammoth renovation, which cost $116 million to complete.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of mammoth
Adjective
  • And now, add Nappanee as a potential tourist attraction for the colossal cabinet.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO has set plans in motion to build a colossal factory serving the two companies in Grimes County, Texas, Fortune reports.
    — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of colossal
Adjective
  • President Barack Obama is known for his prodigious list making.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Even a prodigious young talent can be inconsistent, exacerbated by the sudden increase in attention.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of prodigious
Adjective
  • The weekend before Monday’s drawing for the gargantuan Powerball jackpot, five Florida Lottery major money draw game players hit for lesser big prizes.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
  • To manage flooding, Tokyo built two gargantuan underground systems of tanks and tunnels.
    — Len Maniace, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of gargantuan
Adjective
  • The Charles-and-Magneto dynamic is so titanic that this franchise generally, and X-Men ’97 specifically, mimics its beats with various other pairs of characters.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, leaving behind a titanic legacy as a cultural storyteller who introduced viewers and readers to much more than a good meal.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of titanic
Adjective
  • Figures go down into the cosmic foam, only to turn up later in different forms.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Such dying stars act as cosmic recycling centers, returning material to space that can eventually become incorporated into future generations of stars and planets.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of cosmic
Adjective
  • With a little critical thinking, most reasonable people would conclude that this is not how a gigantic company like OpenAI would handle an incident like this.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In Homewood on Tuesday, gigantic piles of mulch, tree limbs, and branches were already lying around from storms that hit earlier in the summer.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of gigantic
Adjective
  • As a result, both cellular lineages were incorporated into a single, ancient, cyclopean eye, which later evolved into the vertebrate eyes.
    — Federica Sgorbissa, ArsTechnica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
Definition of cyclopean
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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