Meaning & use
Atlantean
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Of enormous size, strength, or ambition, evoking the mythological Titan Atlas who bore the weight of the heavens.
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He faced the atlantean task of rebuilding the company from bankruptcy.
The bridge was an atlantean feat of nineteenth-century engineering.
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Also used, capitalized, to describe anything relating to the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
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herculeancolossal
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2. adjective
Of or relating to the legendary lost island of Atlantis.
The museum exhibit imagined Atlantean architecture rising from the sea floor.
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