galactic
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6.6
- adjective
- /ɡəˈlæktɪk/
:
astronómico
- Hawthorne, Tolstoy, and Melville are being crushed under the weight of galactic empires and video accelerators.
You can have galactic war and still have pockets of flourishing.
- You can have galactic war and still have pockets of flourishing.
- And he's just that, you know, he's that galactic bad boy.
Examples
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The film appears to celebrate the achievement of a universal galactic peace founded on human principles of liberal democracy.
Academic text (2000) -
I think we're in one of those moments right now that our world view, our galactic view is opening right to something a little bit bigger.
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Do you think that we are spending too much or too little attention on capturing galactic real estate?
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Will the world of galactic peace be a less interesting world, a world without the heroic?
Academic text (2000) -
It's sort of lit up by this sort of galactic glow.
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You can have galactic war and still have pockets of flourishing.
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The waiting area stretched to the horizon, bulging with travelers from myriad Galactic Union worlds.
Fiction book (1999) -
Somewhere or other in it is our galactic supercluster, almost unimaginably vast—
Fiction book (1995) -
So particles called galactic cosmic rays, they get shielded to more or lesser extents by the Sun's magnetic field in the heliosphere.
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The scientist spoke about the galactic dimensions of the universe, describing it as vast beyond comprehension.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very large in size, amount, or degree
940
2.9
Very large and impressive in scale
842
2.1
Very large in size, amount, or effect
721
2.1
Very large in size or amount
170
5.5
Relating to the universe or very large in size
141
3.7
Very large in size, amount, or degree
139
3.2
Very large, much bigger than normal
30
5.6
Very large in amount or size
21
4.5
Very large in size or amount, much bigger than normal
19
7.3
Very large, much bigger than usual
5
3.9
Very large in size or amount
1
7.1
Very large in number, cost, or size
Compounds
How Vast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember galactic meaning 'very large' is to think of a galaxy — a huge group of stars and matter; calling something galactic suggests it is vast or on a huge scale.