DINOSAURIC Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

dinosauric

adjective

Definition of dinosauric

as in massive

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Adjective

Toronto reacquired Leonard in an offseason trade after a salary cap-circumvention scandal that led to massive sanctions against the Clippers.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Pearson and his brother KeShaun are the two most prominent local opponents of Elon Musk’s xAI, a subsidiary of which has developed a massive data-center complex, provocatively named Colossus, in and around South Memphis.

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of massive

Adjective

Rather than relying on a bulky conventional liquid-cooling system with heavy hardware, the concept uses a flow-through tail designed around the Venturi effect.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
People with large or overactive chewing muscles, often from clenching or grinding, who want to soften a bulky lower-face look or ease jaw pain.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of bulky

Adjective

An elephantine star becoming a black hole doesn’t explain it either.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Queen Kapiolani, Hawaii’s queen from 1874 to 1891, died on the land that became the site of the elephantine indoor/outdoor Hyatt Regency resort in Waikīkī, where Kumukahi was the cultural ambassador for a decade.

— Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025

Definition of elephantine

Adjective

The Persian Gulf state has declared force majeure — citing unexpected, uncontrollable events preventing contracts from being honored — every month since the March attack.

— Spencer Kimball,Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
About 20% of those in the study reported fatigue, rash, diarrhea, and uncontrollable itching.

— Alice Park, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncontrollable

Adjective

The first of the 12 steps is admitting that your relationship with your vice has become unmanageable.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
If your debt is unmanageable, check with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling to see if a debt management plan might help.

— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of unmanageable

Adjective

Among the relics of its decline is a hulking complex of rusted pipes, towers and conveyor belts in Delano, just five miles north of the McFarland chipping yard.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
The faceless, hulking boxes have become a proxy for the whole argument about AI—its water use, its demands on power and land, the question of who benefits from it all.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hulking

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