BEHEMOTHS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

behemoths

noun

plural of behemoth

as in giants

something that is unusually large and powerful the newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space

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Recent Examples of behemoths Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley encountered their share of growing pains but are now behemoths that generally hold onto their top performers. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026 Back the companies willing to take risks The United States needs an advanced manufacturing ecosystem that includes more than behemoths with access to capital markets and giant lines of credit. — Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026 While invisible themselves, these cosmic behemoths reveal their presence by bending the light of nearby objects, and the Black Hole Hunters project is searching for one specific manifestation of this effect. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Prior to Bending Spoons' recent jump into enterprise software, some of the leading acquirers in the space over the past decade were private equity behemoths Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners. — Cj Haddad, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026 Kroger has also felt pressure from fast-growing discount chains like Aldi and Lidl and online behemoths like Amazon. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Integrating two behemoths, paying down more than $80 billion in debt, and transforming the company into a tech-entertainment hybrid in the process. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 Major indexes shifted lower after a quiet morning as rising bond yields undercut much of the heavy lifting being done by several technology behemoths. — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk). — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The stock closed down about 4% Thursday as investors pondered the lawsuits, investigations, likely corporate jockeying and the resilience of a market driven by the gains of a few tech giants.

— Kelvin Chan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
Broadcom and other custom silicon makers could gain as tech giants look to design more of their own chips, rather than relying on Nvidia’s.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

In February last year, more than 150 whales beached off the coast of Tasmania, Australia – and all of them either died or were euthanized – in the first mass stranding of the animals in Tasmania in 50 years.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Necropsy reports this week specified the causes of death for two beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium after they were rescued from Canada.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Switch-hitters are going the way of the dinosaurs, and just about every pitcher in baseball has really, really good stuff, so teams want an edge in their lineup with balance.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026
In the photo, a cake with a gold number 3 could be seen in the center of a table, featuring what appeared to be dinosaurs on it.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

The film, set between the years 1945 and 1947, depicts a society struggling to recover from war, only to be reduced, once again, by the arrival of a kaiju (as giant monsters are known in Japanese, and to fans of the corresponding film genre).

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
The fight scene rules, and there are much, much worse things for kids to see than CGI monsters grievously injuring one another.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Something that looms large is wealthy business titans trying to exert profound, direct influence over American politics and policies.

— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 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 titans

Noun

Almost forty thousand years ago, in the caves of Chauvet in France, someone painted lions, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and bears with striking naturalism, allowing the animals to emerge from the contours and relief of the stone walls.

— Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026
In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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