Synonyms of mastodons

mastodons

noun

plural of mastodon

as in whales

something or someone that is unusually large and powerful

mom-and-pop stores just can't compete with these mastodons of retailing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whales
• dinosaurs
• giants
• mammoths
• monsters
• elephants
• titans
• behemoths
• leviathans
• hulks
• colossi
• Goliaths
• dreadnoughts
• blockbusters
• jumbos
• whoppers
• heavyweights
• amazons
• giantesses
• bulks
• juggernauts
• steamrollers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shrimp
• pygmies
• dwarfs
• mites
• midgets
• runts
• half-pints
• diminutives
• wisps
• weaklings
• lightweights
• wimps
• peewees
• nonentities
• whippersnappers
• twerps

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mastodons

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of Mexico. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Modern elephants are the only living proboscideans today — a group that once included woolly mammoths and mastodons. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

Other species recovered from the cave, including mastodons and ground sloths, are rare in the region. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026

Ground sloths and mastodons are linked to forest habitats. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026