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
  • The documentary boasts a mammoth runtime of 3 hours and 55 minutes, combining archive footage with first-person interviews.
    — Joe Rae, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Colossal Biosciences previously gained notoriety for its deextinction efforts, like trying to bring back the dire wolf, dodo and wooly mammoth.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of mammoth
Adjective
  • Democrats effectively tied corruption to affordability Democrats linked voter concerns over the cost of living to corruption in government in the lead-up to their colossal victory.
    — Garrett Downs,MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
  • On the 2023 album Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, and Kali Malone elongated single chords to colossal proportions.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of colossal
Adjective
  • The payload fairing that protected the satellite during launch will morph into a radiator, which will dump into space the prodigious heat generated by Big Iron's GPUs (general processing units).
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Yiyun Li’s novel follows real-life 18th century pianist John Field, whose prodigious talent costs him his childhood, and Adelaide Percheron, an orphan denied a public life by her gender and station.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of prodigious
Adjective
  • The canid became the first large mammal known to ascend the gargantuan wildlife crossing nearing completion over the bustling 101 Freeway.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Soon, social media began trending with the revelation that almost everything on the Cheesecake Factory’s gargantuan menu is made from scratch (except the cheesecake).
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of gargantuan
Adjective
  • Republicans lost almost every Senate seat that mattered, with the small consolation of Florida quickly washed away by the titanic loss of South Carolina.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
  • But under that titanic trackpad, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 processor that makes multitasking a breeze and local AI processing easy.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of titanic
Adjective
  • Named after fast-flying birds, the telescope could quickly pivot to observe blink-and-you-miss-it cosmic events such as flaring black holes.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Intermediate-mass black holes are thought to sit between these two families of cosmic titans with masses between 100 and 100,000 times that of the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of cosmic
Adjective
  • The Unity Council commissioned some artists in Mexico City to create a gigantic 34-foot statue of La Catrina.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The fish this man pulled ashore that day was gigantic, one inch over the legal limit.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 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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