From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtitanicti‧tan‧ic /taɪˈtænɪk/ adjective BIGvery big, strong, impressive etc a titanic struggle
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titanic• I could scarcely imagine such a titanic event.• All magic is dangerous and the titanic forces drawn into the realm of Ulthuan are more dangerous than any other.• One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars.• I learn to see life as a titanic moral struggle between good and evil.• What is trivial to one person may raise titanic questions for some one else.• a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evilTitanic, thethe TitanicTitanic, the a large British passenger ship which was considered impossible to sink, but which hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result sank, killing more than 1,500 of its passengers. According to one story, the band continued playing while the ship was sinking. People sometimes use the phrase ‘like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ to describe the actions of a person or organization which makes small and useless changes to a situation, when the situation is already hopeless and certain to fail. 