Himalayan

adjective

ˌhi-mə-ˈlā-ən How to pronounce Himalayan (audio)
Definition of Himalayannext
as in giant
unusually large as military blunders go, the disastrous Pickett's Charge was of Himalayan proportions

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Himalayan
  1. giant
  2. vast
  3. huge
  4. gigantic
  5. mammoth
  6. enormous
  7. mountainous
  8. tremendous
Adjective
  • Take the account of a giant, gentle whale shark gliding through the blue waters off the Southern California coast.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Capital financial services giant project includes a $60 million investment by 2031, and pledges to hire hundreds of workers with minimum average pay of $194,000.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of giant
Adjective
  • For some of the wealthiest families in the United States, their vast fortunes have been cultivated over decades as their businesses are passed from one generation to the next.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2026
  • While JPMorgan faces a vast and onerous regulatory burden—a legacy of all the financial crises caused by bank failures—BlackRock is still relatively lightly regulated.
    — Robin Wigglesworth, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of vast
Adjective
  • Tiny creatures like crabs and ants traveled huge distances, encountering all sorts of dangers—driven by the instinct to lay eggs and reproduce at any cost.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The sensational international rescue of the famously sentient creatures, replete with colossal cargo planes, huge crates and Shedd staffers working in the dead of night to transport and care for the whales, must have looked made for social media.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of huge
Adjective
  • Think again of a gigantic system of pipes, each of which is open or closed with a certain probability.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Find an old Porsche, Jaguar or Mini, rip everything out, throw in a gigantic modern engine, carbon-fiber bodywork and enough computing power to launch a satellite, then ask half a million dollars for it.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of gigantic
Adjective
  • The date is dangerously close to that of the opening of the Whitney’s mammoth Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, scheduled to begin member previews on October 8.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
  • That projection is gargantuan, equivalent to the output from mammoth American economic engines, such as transportation, restaurants and hotels.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of mammoth
Adjective
  • That creates an enormous range of possible eclipse trips, from the Mediterranean coast and the mountains of southern Spain to historic cities, archaeological sites and desert landscapes across North Africa.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • PewDiePie argues that users do not necessarily need an enormous model for everyday agentic tasks.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of enormous
Adjective
  • That could bring some elevated humidity and a small chance of thunderstorms and cloud coverage in mountainous areas, but not enough to significantly lower temperatures across the region.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Poppe described seeing one of PG&E’s workers being lowered by rope from a helicopter onto a transmission tower in mountainous California.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of mountainous
Adjective
  • Both execs are well-liked and respected, and both boast tremendous domains, consisting of both studios and networks.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Diamonds are crystallized under tremendous pressure and heat deep inside the Earth and then thrust to the surface through volcanic activity before they’re scattered by water or wind.
    — LAURA TURBAY, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of tremendous
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