Synonyms of boxcar
87 similar words
Another word for boxcar is van. Other synonyms of boxcar are covered goods wagon, goods van, box van, house car and gigantic.
Synonyms and similar words for boxcar
nounAn enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
- covered goods wagonSynonym of box van (“an enclosed railway goods wagon”).
- goods vanAn enclosed railway freight car, especially one with a sliding door.
- box vanAn enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
- vanAn enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- house carA boxcar.
adjectiveExtremely large.
- gigantic
- enormous
- ample
- bigOf great size, large.
- exceeding literary
- cosmic
- bodacious
- broad
- commodious
- considerable
- expansive
- good-sizedOf a reasonably large size.
- full
- generous
- giantVery large.
- grand
- great
- hefty
- hench
- immense
- jumboEspecially large or powerful.
- larger than life
- leviathanVery large; enormous, gargantuan.
- liberalAmple, abundant; generous in quantity.
- long
- massive
- mega-
- overlargeExcessively large; too big; oversize.
- outsizedOf an unusually large size.
- oversize
- oversizedVery large; especially of something larger than normal for its type.
- prodigiousVery big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.
- roomySpacious, expansive, comfortable.
- rotund
- sizeableStandard spelling of sizable.
- spacious
- stonking Australia, slangImpressively large; exciting.
- substantial
- tall
- vast
- voluminous
- wide
- astronomic
- behemothicColossal, of enormous size and power.
- big fat
- BrobdingnagianEnormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
- bulky
- colossal
- cyclopean
- Daniel LambertishExtremely obese.
- elephantineVery large.
- elephantic
- gargantuanHuge; immense; tremendous.
- giantesqueSynonym of gigantesque.
- gigantesqueVery large; like a giant; gigantic.
- gigantuan (colloquial
- nonstandard))
- ginormous colloquial, slangVery large.
- great bigVery big; huge.
- honkin'
- hugeVery large.
- hulking
- humongous slangOf an extremely large size.
- hunormous colloquial, slangOf a gigantic size.
- mahoosive humorous, slangMassive; huge; very large.
- mammothComparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
- mastodonic
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- pantagruelian
- pyramidal
- PythonicEnormous; also, monstrous.
- stupendous
- super-
- supersizedVery large; supersize.
- titanicHaving great size, or great force, power, or strength.
- tremendous
- whoppingExceptionally great or large.
- yuge
- largifical obsoleteAbounding; ample.
- immane obsoleteVery large; huge; vast.
Meaning of boxcar
- noun An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
- verb To reduce to a boxcar function.
- adjective Extremely large.
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