Epic
What it means
Remarkably large, ambitious, or impressive in scale and effort.
Reach for it when praising an achievement or experience that feels bigger than ordinary life
The crew completed an epic rescue across two flooded valleys.
Words to choose between 7
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playful
Fits when mass appeal and spectacle are part of the praise
Careful Blockbuster is commercial and unsuitable for intimate or humanitarian achievement.
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playful
Fits when memorable greatness invites friendly exaggeration
Careful The word suggests lasting fame and can sound inflated for a recent success.
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warm
Fits when courage or self-sacrifice is the reason for praise
Careful Heroic makes a moral claim that scale and difficulty alone cannot support.
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professional
grand-scale
Fits when physical or organizational scope should be explicit
Careful Scale alone says nothing about excellence, excitement, or achievement.
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professional
Fits when size, importance, or labor is objectively immense
Careful Monumental sounds weighty and is ill suited to exuberant fun.
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formal
Fits when departure from the ordinary is the safest praise
Careful Extraordinary need not involve the scale, story, or sustained effort of epic.
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literary
Fits when enormous effort against daunting odds is central
Careful The classical allusion is grander and narrower than a merely impressive experience.
Opposites 4
- ordinary
- minor
- modest
- forgettable
Common phrases 3
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epic journey
Their epic journey ended at the lighthouse just before dawn.
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epic achievement
Reopening the mountain railway was an epic achievement for the small crew.
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truly epic
The final community concert was truly epic without feeling overproduced.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Commander Keane, Australian accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated