titanic
Syllables: ti·tan·icUK/taɪˈtænɪk/
titanic adjective: of or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
Adjective (1)
titanic (not generally comparable, comparative more titanic, superlative most titanic)
Adjective (2)
titanic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
- Of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
- Synonyms:
- titanian, titaniferous
Adjective (3) capitalized: Titanic
Titanic (not generally comparable, comparative more Titanic, superlative most Titanic)
- Of or relating to the Titans, a race of giant gods in Greek mythology.
- Having 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
- 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...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, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable
- Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
Proper noun capitalized: Titanic
the Titanic
- 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.
Noun capitalized: Titanic
Titanic (plural Titanics)
- 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 well1995, Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson, Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder, page 437
- "[…]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
titanic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
titanic in Hindi
- टाइटैनिक, टाइटेनिक
titanic in Tamil
- மீமனித ஆற்றலுடைய, மிகப் பெரிய வலிமையுடைய, மாபேராற்றல் வாய்ந்த, மிகப்பெரிய மாபேரளவான
titanic in Marathi
- टायटॅनिक, टाइटॅनिक
titanic in Urdu
- ٹائٹینک, ٹائٹنک, ٹائیٹینک
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- titanic in Bengali
- টাইটানিক
- titanic in Telugu
- టైటానిక్, టైటానికల్
- titanic in Malayalam
- ഭീമരൂപിയായ, മഹാകായമായ, ബൃഹത്തായ, മഹാ
- titanic in Kannada
- ದೈತ್ಯಾಕಾರದ, ಬೃಹತ್ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ
- titanic in Punjabi
- ਟਾਇਟੈਨਿਕ, ਟਾਈਟੈਨਿਕ
- titanic in Gujarati
- ટાઇટેનિક, ટાઇટૈનિક, ટાઇટાનિક
- titanic in Odia
- ଟାଇଟାନିକ୍, ଟାଇଟାନିକ
- titanic in Nepali
- टाइटैनिक, टाइटानिक, टाइटेनिक
Examples of titanic in a sentence
- Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.
- Buildings shaped like vast silver monoliths floated, and moved, horizontally and vertically, like titanic antigravitic machines dancing in precisely calculated, mathematical symmetry.
- Down there the "furriner" would have seen only the rough course of the creek between moss-velveted and shaded bowlders of titanic proportions.
Synonyms of titanic
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Antonyms
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Forms of titanic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more titanic |
| superlative | most titanic |
| comparative | more Titanic |
| superlative | most Titanic |
| alternative form | titanic |
| Noun | |
| plural | Titanics |
Origin of titanic
See Titanic.
From titan(ium) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns), in the case of sense 1 (“of or relating to titanium”) modelled after French titanique.
From Late Latin Titanicus, or its etymon Ancient Greek Τιτανικός (Titanikós, “of or relating to the Titans”), from Τιτᾶνες (Titânes, “Titans”) + -ικός (-ikós, “suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives”). Τιτᾶνες (Titânes) is the nominative or vocative plural of Τῑτᾱ́ν (Tītā́n, “a Titan”), and then possibly: * from τῐ́σῐς (tĭ́sĭs, “payment; atonement, penalty, punishment, retribution, reward; vengeance”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pay; to avenge”); or * from τιταίνω (titaínō, “to extend, stretch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to extend, stretch; to spread; to exert, push to the limit, strain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to extend, stretch”); or * from τίτο (títo, “sun; day”), originally borrowed from Anatolian. The English word is analyzable as Titan + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns).
Words formed from titanic
- Itanic
- rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
- Titaniac
- Titanic clause
- titanically
- titanic prime
- fluotitanic acid
- titanate
- titanic acid
- titanic iron ore
- titanico-
- titanic oxide
- titanic schorl
Phrases with titanic
- titanic acids
- titanic primes
- move the deckchairs on the Titanic
- moved the deckchairs on the Titanic
- moves the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shift the deckchairs on the Titanic
- moving the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shifts the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shifted the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shuffled the deckchairs on the Titanic
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- shuffles the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic
- rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic
- rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic
- rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
- shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
- shuffled the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
- shuffles the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
- shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
Words that rhyme with titanic
- organic
- mechanic
- panic
- aldermanic
- Hispanic
- inorganic
- Romanic
- tetanic
- volcanic
- cyanic
- melanic
- tympanic
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- uranic
- allophanic
- manic
- montanic
- Sudanic
- veganic
- alloxanic
- balanic
- bistephanic
- botanic
- Britannic
- caroticotympanic
- Catalanic
- clavulanic
- Dianic
- endotympanic
- extratympanic
- furanic
- hydrovolcanic
- incudotympanic
- intertympanic
- Itanic
- manganic
- neanic
- nontympanic
- paratympanic
- pharyngotympanic
- phytanic
- pristanic
- Proto-Germanic
- pyranic
- retrotympanic
- shamanic
- stannic
- sultanic
- tannic
- Trajanic
- tyrannic
Questions about titanic
- What does titanic mean?
- Titanic means of or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
- What is titanic in Hindi?
- Titanic in Hindi is टाइटैनिक, टाइटेनिक. See Titanic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is titanic?
- Titanic can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce titanic?
- Titanic is pronounced /taɪˈtænɪk/ (UK).
Words near titanic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: titanic (page history and authors); Titanic (page history and authors); titanic (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); titanic (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); titanic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); titanic (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); titanic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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