titanic
adjective/taɪˈtænɪk/
/taɪˈtænɪk/
(formal)- very large, important, strong or difficult
- a titanic struggle between good and evil
- He has set himself a titanic task: to revive the country’s economy.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTitanic is used with these nouns:- struggle
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the sun’): from Greek titanikos, from Titan (see Titan).Definitions on the go
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