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Definition of titanic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

titanic

adjective
 
/taɪˈtænɪk/
 
/taɪˈtænɪk/
(formal)
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  1. 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
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    Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the sun’): from Greek titanikos, from Titan (see Titan).
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