leviathan

Meanings

Plural: leviathans

Noun

• the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  • "it was a leviathan among redwoods"
  • "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"
• monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
• A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
• A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.
• Sometimes in the form Leviathan: based on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one.
• Synonym of Satan (“the supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions, who tempts humanity into sin; the Devil”).

Adj

• Very large; enormous, gargantuan.

Synonyms

ample, astronomic, behemoth, behemothic, big, big fat, bodacious, boxcar, broad, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, colossus, commodious, considerable, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, Pythonic, roomy, rotund, Satan, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titan, titanic, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge