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Synonyms of epic in English:

epic


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noun

1‘the epics of Homer’

SYNONYMS
heroic poem, long poem, long story
saga, legend, romance, lay, history, chronicle, myth, fable, folk tale, folk story

2‘a big Hollywood epic’

SYNONYMS
epic film, long film
informal blockbuster

adjective

1‘a traditional epic poem’

SYNONYMS
heroic, long, grand, monumental, vast, Homeric, Miltonian
lofty, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, extravagant, bombastic
ANTONYMS

understated

2‘their epic journey through the mountains’

SYNONYMS
ambitious, heroic, grand, arduous, extraordinary, Herculean
very long, very great, very large, huge, monumental