titanic

comparative more titanic · superlative most titanic

1. Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
   1. not comparableusuallyOf or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
   2. broadlycomparablenot comparableusuallyHaving great size, or great force, power, or strength.
   3. broadlynot comparableusuallyOf a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.

1. not comparablechemistryOf or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
2. not comparablechemistryOf a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.

   Synonyms: titanian, titaniferous

comparative more Titanic · superlative most Titanic · alternative titanic

1. not comparableusuallyOf or relating to the Titans, a race of giant gods in Greek mythology.

   Synonyms: Titanian, titanical

2. broadlycomparablenot comparableusuallyHaving great size, or great force, power, or strength.

   Rome—Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, / In the same dust and blackness, and we pass / The skeleton of her Titanic form, / Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm.

   1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVI, page 26

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   And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Grand Armada”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 430–431

   Synonyms: Titanian, titanical, ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable · Antonyms: compact, fun size, fun-sized, ickle, insignificant, lit'l, little, low

3. broadlynot comparableusuallyOf a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.

1. The RMS Titanic, an ocean liner, thought by the public to be unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.

   The Titanic story inspired a movie considered as one of the best of all time.

plural Titanics

1. A venture that fails spectacularly, especially one perceived as overconfident.

   Surely , one doesn't want another Titanic, with everyone sailing along in the serene belief that all will be well

   1995, Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson, Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder, page 437

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   "[…]We don't want another Titanic on our hands. Come on, folks, there's plenty of lifeboats for everybody. Make your way down."

   2006, Tracie Peterson, Summer of the Midnight Sun

   It is time that we review them holistically. But is is not easy to move the world. This is a Titanic that will continue to steer towards the iceberg because of its momentum.

   2015, Tofara Y Dube, Rise You Downtrodden Blacks