JUMBOS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

jumbos

noun

plural of jumbo

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds

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Recent Examples of jumbos But go in expecting fewer of the big, picture-perfect jumbos, more size substitutions, and prices that stay elevated straight through the holidays; this year's crop doesn't finish shipping until harvest wraps in November. — Phil Lempert, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Even in the deep ocean, which is filled with alien-like creatures, the whales almost feel like a master alien.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The Marine Mammal Center cautions against getting too close to sea lions and whales, for everyone’s safety.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Shapiro emphasized more than once that media giants courting audiences need to think in terms of generations and affinity groups, not the age and gender demos of yore.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Bumper earnings from bellwether tech giants Anthropic and TSMC did little to assuage a market that has turned bearish on the AI trade, sending stocks plummeting.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

Instead of young dinosaurs, these were actually adult examples of an entirely separate species now known as Nanotyrannus lancensis.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
The results were compared with the skulls of other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, such as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and raptors.

— Archie Clarke, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Along some stretches of highway unused turbine blades line the roadsides like giant, fiberglass elephant tusks.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Colossal is undertaking a similar process in their woolly mammoth project – that involves genetically modifying an Asian elephant.

— Colleen McKown, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of elephants

Noun

Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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