What is another word for towering above?

Pronunciation: [tˈa͡ʊəɹɪŋ əbˈʌv] (IPA)

When you want to describe something that is tall or elevated, there are various synonyms that you can use instead of "towering above." For example, you might say that something looms over another object, or that it rises high into the sky. Other options include describing it as standing tall, soaring, reaching for the clouds, or looming over. When describing a person who is significantly taller than others, you might say they are towering, or that they stand head and shoulders above the rest. All of these synonyms can help to add more vivid and descriptive language to your writing.

What are the hypernyms for Towering above?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Towering above

  • We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
    Albert Pike
  • Ashoka’s emblem of the Amlaki will be seen on the cornices of the Institute, and towering above all is the symbol of thunderbolt. It was the RishiDadhichi, the pure and blameless, who offered his life that the divine weapon, the thunderbolt, might be fashioned out of his bones to smite evil and exalt righteousness. It is but half of the Amlaki that we can offer now. But the past shall be reborn in a yet nobler future. We stand here today and resume work tomorrow, so that by the efforts of our lives and our unshaken faith in the future we may all help to build the greater India yet to be.
    Jagadish Chandra Bose

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