TITAN Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

titan

noun

ˈtī-tᵊn

Definition of titan

as in giant

something that is unusually large and powerful this newest ocean liner is a true titan of the sea

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of titan The concise nine-song set, credited to the Carters, feels more like a tour souvenir, a casually virtuosic collection from two titans with nothing left to prove. — Al Shipley, SPIN, 14 July 2026 This saves you 31% on a noise-cancelling titan, with an adjustable high-fidelity hardware equalizer and a 24-hour battery life. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026 Members are said to include Mark Zuckerberg, Melinda French Gates, Tom Brady, and numerous other titans of culture and commerce. — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026 The latter band would be looked back on as a future supergroup of female rock titans on the rise, consisting of Finch, Courtney Love, and Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for titan

Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan

Noun

But of the two Premier League giants who have thrown their financial heft at these signings, whose is the better deal?

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Two of the biggest tech giants are locked in a head-to-head legal battle, with Apple claiming OpenAI stole trade secrets as the AI start-up plans its first hardware devices.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 23 July 2026

Definition of giant

Noun

Inside a San Fernando workshop, Samuel McBride makes movie monsters come to life for the camera.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
In his fullest public argument yet about his thinking, Thiel and co-author Sam Wolfe write the figure of ultimate evil is best understood not as a monster or a tyrant but as a technocrat.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026

Definition of monster

Noun

The audience giggled nervously as their seats rocked and rolled during the tense chase scene, and whenever the dinosaur went in for an attack, a squirt of water shot out from behind each audience member’s seat.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 19 July 2026
But there were plenty of amenities to point out—the massage rooms and nap pods, the dinosaur fossil, the wacky sensory-break touches like ball pits, swings, and yoga balls (even if no one actually seemed to use them).

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

Definition of dinosaur

Noun

For a mammoth, a successful pregnancy in an elephant surrogate would drag on for almost two years.

— Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 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, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

Definition of mammoth

Noun

The new colossus would significantly dampen competition, Bonta and the other Democratic prosecutors argue.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
The company is putting together a potential modern-day materials colossus that, pending closure, would include the key materials needed to make semiconductors — Club name Qnity is a big competitor — and run nuclear power plants .

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026

Definition of colossus

Browse Nearby Words

tissues

titan

titanic

See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

Style

“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 24 Jul. 2026.

Copy Citation

Synonyms of titan

noun

Example Sentences

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

More from Merriam-Webster on titan

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

itinerant

Popular in Grammar & Usage

Democracy or Republic: What's the difference?

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Do you 'say your piece' or 'say your peace'?

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Popular in Wordplay

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

The Longest Long Words List

Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’

The Words of the Week - Jul 24

Why do we say 'fly off the handle'?

Popular

Democracy or Republic: What's the difference?

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

The Longest Long Words List

Games & Quizzes