DINOSAUR Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word dinosaur. (close relations)
Definition of DINOSAUR
dinosaurian
Best Alternative Words for DINOSAUR
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fossil | nounn | |||||||
adjective • characteristic of a fossil noun • someone whose style is out of fashion • the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | ||||||||
ancient | adjectiveadj | |||||||
noun • a very old person • a person who lived in ancient times adjective satellite • belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire • very old | ||||||||
behemoth | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • a person of exceptional importance and reputation | ||||||||
brute | nounn | |||||||
noun • a cruelly rapacious person • a living organism characterized by voluntary movement adjective satellite • resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | ||||||||
colossus | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • a person of exceptional importance and reputation | ||||||||
creature | nounn | |||||||
noun • a living organism characterized by voluntary movement • a living being • a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | ||||||||
extinct | adjectiveadj | |||||||
adjective • no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives • (of e.g. volcanoes) permanently inactive adjective satellite • being out or having grown cold | ||||||||
giant | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • any creature of exceptional size • a person of exceptional importance and reputation • an unusually large enterprise • a very large person; impressive in size or qualities • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales • a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) adjective satellite • of great mass; huge and bulky | ||||||||
mammoth | nounn | |||||||
noun • any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks adjective satellite • so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | ||||||||
monster | nounn | |||||||
noun • an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | ||||||||
prehistoric | adjectiveadj | |||||||
adjective • of or relating to times before written history adjective satellite • belonging to or existing in times before recorded history • outdated | ||||||||
reptile | nounn | |||||||
noun • any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | ||||||||
saurian | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
adjective • of or relating to lizards noun • any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | ||||||||
megafauna | nounn | |||||||
noun • The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group. • A treatise on such a group of large animals. |