Epic Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕpĭk
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. heroic
  2. classic
  3. grand
  4. grandiose
  5. narrative
  6. homeric
  7. historic
  8. momentous
  9. significant
  10. tremendous
  11. epical
  12. larger-than-life
  13. huge
  14. vast
  15. monumental
  16. major
  17. on a grand scale
Antonyms:
  1. unimportant
  2. small
  3. lyric
Long story
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. epos
  2. poem
  3. heroic poem
  4. saga
  5. narrative poem
  6. heroic story
  7. composition
  8. legend
  9. grand
  10. chronicle
  11. great
  12. epic poem
  13. heroic
  14. imposing
  15. epopee
  16. legendary
  17. majestic
  18. national-epic
  19. narrative
  20. noble
  21. tale
Antonyms:
  1. short-story

Words Related to Epic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Epic Sentence Examples

  • In early times the war of the Epigoni was a favourite subject of epic poetry.

  • His bond to Katie tempered what was otherwise a disaster of epic proportions.

  • He also drew up select lists of epic and lyric poets.

  • The period we have briefly traversed was immortalized by Dante in an epic which from one point of view might be called the poem of the Guelphs and Ghibellines.

  • In its final form, the outcome of an extended and complicated literary process, the Gilgamesh Epic covered twelve tablets, each tablet devoted to one adventure in which the hero plays a direct or indirect part, and the whole covering according to the most plausible estimate about 3000 lines.

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