Bunyanesque

Definition of Bunyanesquenext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • Most small banks have operating costs per dollar of revenue in excess of their mammoth competitors.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Neighbors began wondering — and posting online — about would come of the mammoth, empty restaurant.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Russia has the world’s largest fleet with about 100 vessels, including colossal ships powered by nuclear reactors.
    Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Here, even check-in is transformed from pedestrian passport handover to what feels like a colossal, living, breathing oil painting.
    Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Harbaugh and the Chargers seem equally fortunate to land McDaniel, an ideal candidate for the crucial job of directing Herbert’s career into something worthy of his prodigious talent.
    Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The overtime interception was a fitting end for what was ultimately a boom-or-bust performance by Williams, the second-year player with prodigious talent, a flair for the dramatic and frustrating inconsistencies.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Foege, a key player in the global effort to eradicate smallpox, was stationed by the CDC in India in the early 1970s, helping that country with the gargantuan challenge of stopping spread of this horrible disease within its borders.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Jan. 2026
  • See ChatGPT and what’s followed it, including gargantuan amounts of spending by Meta and others.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • But hiding behind this benign climate state was all that titanic power flowing through the climate system.
    Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • As with the rest of the hotel, everything in-room is purposeful and considered, from the art (not just prints, but integrated sculptures and ceramics) to the generous bathrooms, with titanic tubs and rainfall showers.
    Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Instead, on a variety of cosmic scales, from the insides of individual galaxies to groups and clusters of galaxies all the way up to the largest filamentary structures of all, an additional source of gravity is required.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In effect, cosmic radiation becomes a chemical engine, driving complexity in environments previously thought too cold and inert to support such reactions.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • These stray images were then blasted away by a blazing sun that completely filled the space of awareness before transforming itself into a gigantic eyeball—a sighted sun with a black circle of iris.
    Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • An ending to the story of this gigantic resource has yet to be written.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The five-story Osaka Castle, a recreation of the original keep (which was destroyed on several occasions), is built on solid cyclopean foundations, with mint green roof tiles and golden accoutrements that bear striking similarities with Nagoya Castle.
    CNN, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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