Definition for Epic:

• Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.

Synonyms for Epic:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • larger-than-life,
  • epic.
  •astronomical (adjective)
  • vast,
  • jumbo,
  • colossal,
  • prodigious,
  • massive,
  • astronomic,
  • tremendous,
  • gigantic,
  • mammoth,
  • monumental,
  • enormous.
  •heroic (adjective)
  • valiant,
  • grand,
  • gallant,
  • mythological.
  •immortal (adjective)
  • storied.
  •poetic (adjective)
  • pastoral,
  • idyllic.

• n.

  •chronicle (noun)
  • statement,
  • description,
  • enumeration,
  • book,
  • docket,
  • narrative,
  • diary,
  • calendar,
  • chronicle,
  • anecdote,
  • notebook,
  • catalog,
  • autobiography,
  • recital,
  • journal,
  • yearbook,
  • inventory,
  • newsletter,
  • scrapbook,
  • album,
  • newspaper,
  • daybook,
  • Cashbook,
  • register,
  • archive,
  • record,
  • chronology,
  • log,
  • biography,
  • memorandum,
  • memo,
  • account,
  • ledger,
  • index.
  •communication (noun)
  • epos,
  • heroic poem,
  • epic poem.
  •epic (noun)
  • tale,
  • large,
  • big,
  • legend,
  • epical.
  •heroic (noun)
  • momentous,
  • huge,
  • historic,
  • major,
  • homeric.
  •history (noun)
  • narration.
  •poem (noun)
  • lyric.
  •saga (noun)
  • yarn.
  •story (noun)
  • fable,
  • serial,
  • novel,
  • fiction,
  • parable,
  • myth,
  • allegory,
  • romance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rime,
  • suspenseful,
  • elegy,
  • trilogy,
  • aeon,
  • filmic,
  • threnody,
  • masque,
  • melodrama,
  • lament,
  • classic,
  • pantomime,
  • nursery rhyme,
  • fairy tale,
  • fantasy,
  • ghost story,
  • gory,
  • tragic,
  • eon,
  • ode,
  • untold,
  • truthful,
  • epigram,
  • month,
  • nonlinear,
  • faction,
  • thriller,
  • swashbuckling,
  • overripe,
  • unconvincing,
  • romp,
  • mythic,
  • doggerel,
  • horror story,
  • folklore,
  • legendary.
  •
  • year,
  • ballad,
  • light year,
  • mystery,
  • hour,
  • musical.
  •
  • rhyme,
  • tableau,
  • drama.
  •
  • cycle.
  •
  • lay.
  •Other relevant words:
  • roman-fleuve,
  • epic poetry,
  • miraculous,
  • heroical,
  • impressive,
  • described,
  • piece,
  • Amoebaeum,
  • iambic,
  • brave,
  • anapestic,
  • balada,
  • fabled,
  • epics,
  • roundel,
  • verse form,
  • article,
  • wonderful,
  • expansive,
  • joke,
  • adventure,
  • Rhapsodical,
  • jingle,
  • dirge,
  • graphic,
  • regal,
  • iliad,
  • dramatic,
  • towering,
  • tanka,
  • stately,
  • Idyl,
  • pastourelle,
  • mountainous,
  • western,
  • pastoral elegy,
  • immense,
  • majestic,
  • clerihew,
  • love story,
  • Epopee,
  • Palinode,
  • Georgic,
  • EPO,
  • didactic,
  • couplet,
  • science fiction,
  • infinite,
  • rondeau,
  • anecdotic,
  • mighty,
  • traditional,
  • melodic,
  • gargantuan,
  • well-drawn,
  • edda,
  • rhapsodic,
  • rondo,
  • fairy story,
  • mythos,
  • poetical,
  • recounting,
  • Bunyanesque,
  • descriptive,
  • history-making,
  • elegiac,
  • elephantine,
  • Chanson,
  • stupendous,
  • tuneful,
  • Anacreontic,
  • classical,
  • Alba,
  • Cento,
  • tradition,
  • Fabliau,
  • gag,
  • whodunit,
  • outsize,
  • odyssey,
  • song,
  • Anecdotage,
  • suggestive,
  • important,
  • metrical,
  • Epode,
  • rondel,
  • Ghazal,
  • sensational,
  • Prothalamium,
  • biggest,
  • eclogue,
  • poetry,
  • Triolet,
  • sapphic,
  • bucolic,
  • Canzonet,
  • detective story,
  • giant,
  • desperate,
  • Epopoeia,
  • Virelay,
  • runic,
  • bigger,
  • monstrous,
  • rhapsody,
  • idyll,
  • versicle,
  • trochaic,
  • mock-heroic,
  • Ghazel,
  • roundelay,
  • cyclopean,
  • CANSO,
  • narrative poem,
  • Traditionary,
  • monody,
  • Geste,
  • Skaldic,
  • large-scale,
  • ballade,
  • satire,
  • madrigal,
  • magnificent,
  • tenso,
  • abysmal,
  • dithyramb,
  • dithyrambic,
  • sloka,
  • largest,
  • lyrical,
  • fabulous,
  • Chanson De Geste,
  • profound,
  • Epithalamium,
  • Gest,
  • monster.

Paraphrases for Epic:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    narrative.
  • Verb, past participle
    wicked.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    saga, sendoff.

Antonyms for Epic:

• adj.

  • astronomical
    small, insignificant.
  • heroic
    timid, fearful, afraid, meek, cowardly.
  • immortal
    unknown, mortal, infamous, unimportant.
  • poetic
    prosaic.
  • Other antonyms:
    unprepossessing, sordid, humble, paltry, mediocre, mean, common, puny, modest, second-rate, run-of-the-mill, measly, petty, trifling, abject, unimposing, unimpressive, trivial, average, little, lowly, meretricious, unheroic, shabby, ordinary.

• n.

  • epic
    short story.
  • poem
    prose.

Homophones for Epic:

• evacuee, episcia, effigy, effuse, eyepiece, eohippus, eaves, efface, epos, EbS, euphausiacea, epoxy, euphagus, efficacious, epizoic, epiphysis, Ephesus, epoch, efficacy, epigaea, evoke.

Hypernym for Epic:

• n.

  • communication
    heroic meter, heroic verse, Chanson De Geste, rhapsody, heroic.

Hyponym for Epic:

• n.

  • communication
    verse form, poem.