Need another word that means the same as “epic”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “epic” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Epic” are: epic poem, epos, heroic poem, epic film, epical, heroic, long, grand, monumental, vast, ambitious, arduous, extraordinary, herculean
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “epic” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| epic film | A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds. |
| epic poem | A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds. |
| epos | A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme. |
| heroic poem | A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “epic” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| ambitious | Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed. An ambitious enterprise. |
| arduous | Difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill. The arduous work of preparing a dictionary. |
| epical | Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic. |
| extraordinary | (of a meeting) specially convened. Young children need extraordinary amounts of attention. |
| grand | (of a crime) serious. Collecting on a grand scale. |
| herculean | Extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules. Herculean exertions. |
| heroic | Of or representing heroes or heroines. Heroic explorers. |
| long | Of a broker or their position in the market buying or based on long stocks. In long supply. |
| monumental | Great in importance, extent, or size. It s been a monumental effort. |
| vast | Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope. At vast or immense expense. |
| anthology | A collection of selected literary passages. A double CD anthology of Moby Grape the legendary Sixties San Francisco band. |
| assonant | Having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables. Note the assonant words and syllables in tilting at windmills. |
| bard | A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition. Our national bard Robert Burns. |
| bibliophile | A person who collects or has a great love of books. |
| fiction | A deliberately false or improbable account. The notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction. |
| language | Coarse or offensive language. The film contains some violence and bad language. |
| literate | A literate person. Their parents were uneducated and barely literate. |
| literature | The humanistic study of a body of literature. The technical literature. |
| lyric | Write lyrics for a song. She has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs. |
| metaphorical | Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. Many of our metaphorical expressions develop from our perceptions of the body. |
| minstrel | A performer in a minstrel show. The exaggerated dialect of blackface minstrels. |
| missive | A document in the form of a letter exchanged by the parties to a contract. Yet another missive from the Foreign Office. |
| poem | A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery. Lyric poems. |
| poesy | Poetry. The genius of poesy. |
| poetic | Of or relating to poets. Turner s vision of the rainbow was poetic. |
| poetics | Study of poetic works. Both poetics and rhetoric make use of narrative structure. |
| poetry | Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling. Poetry and fire are nicely balanced in the music. |
| potboiler | A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot. |
| prose | A passage of prose for translation into a foreign language. Closely typed in best office prose. |
| quatrain | A stanza of four lines. |
| read | Having a specified level of knowledge as a result of reading. He didn t dare look away in case this was read as a sign of weakness. |
| rhapsody | A free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional in character. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies. |
| rhyme | Of a poem or song be composed in rhyme. Balloon rhymes with moon. |
| sentence | Pronounce a sentence on somebody in a court of law. His sentence was 5 to 10 years. |
| song | A musical composition suggestive of a song. He bought it for a song. |
| sonnet | Compose a sonnet. He sonneted his hostess now. |
| stanza | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem. |
| verse | Speak in or compose verse versify. She versed herself in Roman archeology. |
| write | Underwrite an insurance policy. He had to write a cheque for 800. |
| writer | A scribe. A writer of short stories. |
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