(in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.

a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend

a giant in her field; an intellectual giant.

( often initial capital letter ) Classical Mythology . any of the Gigantes.

Mining . monitor ( def. 12 ) .

Astronomy . giant star.

unusually large, great, or strong; gigantic; huge.

greater or more eminent than others.

adjective

dwarf , little , miniature , miniscule , minor , small , teeny , tiny

noun

dwarf , midget , runt

adjective

big , blimp * , brobdingnagian * , colossal , cyclopean , elephantine * , enormous , gargantuan , gigantic , gross * , herculean * , huge , hulking , humongous * , immense , jumbo * , mammoth , monstrous * , mountainous , prodigious , super-duper , titanic , vast , whale of a , whaling , behemoth , brobdingnagian , bunyanesque , elephantine , gigantesque , herculean , heroic , jumbo , massive , massy , mastodonic , mighty , monster , monstrous , monumental , pythonic , stupendous , tremendous

noun

behemoth , bulk , colossus , cyclops , elephant * , goliath , hercules , hulk , jumbo * , leviathan , mammoth , monster * , mountain * , ogre , polypheme , titan , whale * , whopper * , jumbo , monster , brobdingnagian , gargantua , giantism , gigantism , paul bunyan , troll