Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun giant

7 senses of giant

Sense 1
giant -- (any creature of exceptional size)
       => animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna -- (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Sense 2
colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan -- (a person of exceptional importance and reputation)
       => important person, influential person, personage -- (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)

Sense 3
giant -- (an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant")
       => enterprise -- (an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader")

Sense 4
giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale -- (a very large person; impressive in size or qualities)
       => large person -- (a person of greater than average size)

Sense 5
giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus -- (someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful)
       => anomaly, unusual person -- (a person who is unusual)

Sense 6
giant -- (an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales)
       => imaginary being, imaginary creature -- (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Sense 7
giant star, giant -- (a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun))
       => star -- ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

Antonyms of adj giant

1 sense of giant

Sense 1
elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo -- (of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp")

INDIRECT (VIA large, big) -> small, little -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")
INDIRECT (VIA large, big) -> small, little -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")

Similarity of adj giant

1 sense of giant

Sense 1
elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo -- (of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp")
       => large (vs. small), big (vs. little) -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")