epic as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
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epic
noun
1 epic
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.
synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem.
Roget 597:
poetry,
poetics,
poesy,
Muse,
Calliope,
tuneful Nine,
Parnassus,
Helicon†,
Pierides,
Pierian spring.
versification,
rhyming,
making verses;
prosody,
orthometry†.
poem;
epic,
epic poem;
epopee†,
epopoea,
ode,
epode†,
idyl,
lyric,
eclogue,
pastoral,
bucolic,
dithyramb,
anacreontic†,
sonnet,
roundelay,
rondeau [Fr.],
rondo,
madrigal,
canzonet†,
cento†,
monody [Slang],
elegy;
amoebaeum,
ghazal†,
palinode.
dramatic poetry,
lyric poetry;
opera;
posy,
anthology;
disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.],
ballad,
lay;
love song,
drinking song,
war song,
sea song;
lullaby;
music
etc.
415;
nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry]
doggerel,
Hudibrastic verse†,
prose run mad;
macaronics†;
macaronic verse†,
leonine verse;
runes.
canto,
stanza,
distich,
verse,
line,
couplet,
triplet,
quatrain;
strophe,
antistrophe†.
verse,
rhyme,
assonance,
crambo†,
meter,
measure,
foot,
numbers,
strain,
rhythm;
accentuation
etc.
(voice)
580;
dactyl,
spondee,
trochee,
anapest
&c.;
hexameter,
pentameter;
Alexandrine;
anacrusis†,
antispast†,
blank verse,
ictus.
elegiacs
etc.
adj.;
elegiac verse,
elegaic meter,
elegaic poetry.
poet,
poet laureate;
laureate;
bard,
lyrist†,
scald,
skald†,
troubadour,
trouvere [Fr.];
minstrel;
minnesinger,
meistersinger [G.];
improvisatore†;
versifier,
sonneteer;
rhymer,
rhymist†,
rhymester;
ballad monger,
runer†;
poetaster;
genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
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Dutch: heldendicht, heldengedicht, epos, heldenepos
Polish: epopeja, epos
adjective
1 epic
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale):
— An epic voyage.
synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life.
Roget 597:
poetic,
poetical;
lyric,
lyrical,
tuneful,
epic,
dithyrambic
etc.
n.;
metrical;
a catalectin†;
elegiac,
iambic,
trochaic,
anapestic†;
amoebaeic,
Melibean,
skaldic†;
Ionic,
Sapphic,
Alcaic†,
Pindaric.
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Roget 594:
descriptive,
graphic,
narrative,
epic,
suggestive,
well-drawn;
historic;
traditional,
traditionary;
legendary;
anecdotic†,
storied;
described
etc.
v..
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2 epic
Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic:
— Epic tradition.
synonym: epical.
Dutch: episch
Polish: epicki, epiczny
Moby thesaurus: English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, account, alba, anacreontic, anecdotage, anecdote, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chronicle, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narration, narrative, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, saga, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, story, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, yarn ... show more.
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