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| Main Entry: | epic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long story |
| Synonyms: | legend, narrative, saga, tale, heroic poem |
| Notes: | epics are long poems about legendary heroes; sagas are prose epics about famous men and women, especially of medieval times |
| Antonyms: | short story |
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| Main Entry: | astronomical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | colossal, considerable, enormous, epic, gigantic, humongous*, jumbo, mammoth, massive, monster*, monumental, prodigious, tremendous, vast, whopping*, astronomic, ginormous, mega, sizeable, very big, very large |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, small |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heroic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brave, champion |
| Synonyms: | bold, classic, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, elevated, epic, exaggerated, fearless, gallant, grand, grandiose, gritty, gutsy*, high-flown, inflated, intrepid, noble, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, bigger than life, fire-eating, gutty, impavid, lion-hearted, mythological, stand tall |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cowardly, fearful, meek, timid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, composition, creation, epic, free verse, lyric, ode, poetry, rhyme, rime, song, verse, words, writing, blank verse, haiku, limerick, lines, poesy, quatrain, rune, sestina, sonnet, villanelle |
| Antonyms: | prose |
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | dramatic, elegiac, epic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, romantic, tuneful, anapestic, dactylic, epical, epodic, iambic, metrical, odic, rhythmical, songlike |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
| Main Entry: | saga |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long |
| Synonyms: | adventure, chronicle, epic, legend, narrative, soap opera*, tale, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | titanic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gigantic, very large |
| Synonyms: | Brobdingnagian*, Herculean*, colossal, elephantine, enormous, epic, gargantuan, giant, huge, immense, jumbo*, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, towering, tremendous, vast, larger-than-life, titan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
| Synonyms: | ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poetry, rhyme, song, stanza, poesy, rune, sonnet |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, narration, narrative, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version, memoirs, prehistory |
| Main Entry: | immortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | famous |
| Synonyms: | celebrated, eminent, epic, genius, glorious, heroic, illustrious, paragon, storied, laureate |
| Antonyms: | infamous, insignificant, mortal, unimportant, unknown |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accountable, anecdotic, cadastral, described, descriptive, epic, graphic, historic, hypomnematic, legendary, narrative, storied, suggestive, traditional, traditionary
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| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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