astronomical
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Synonyms & Antonyms for astronomical
Synonyms
Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
Antonyms
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
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The protesters are against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope which would serve as an astronomical observatory. — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "Dwayne Johnson Joins Protests Against Construction on Hawaii’s Tallest Mountain," 25 July 2019 Thirteen astronomical observatories that call the mountain home have evacuated workers and curtailed their operations. — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, "Hawaii Telescope Protest Shuts Down 13 Observatories on Mauna Kea," 22 July 2019 Market-rate developers point out that astronomical city fees have made many housing projects impossible to finance. — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, "Mayor angered it takes so ‘damn long’ to build housing as homelessness spikes," 16 July 2019 This will be only the third time in the last half-century that the path of totality has passed over a major astronomical observatory—in this case, two of them. — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, "How to watch South America’s total eclipse from anywhere," 2 July 2019 Companies are having trouble hiring employees willing to put up with the region’s astronomical housing costs. — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, "Santa Clara, San Mateo county assessment rolls see record growth, Google and Apple play key role," 2 July 2019 The desert in Chile is dry as a bone, receiving less than an inch of rain per year, and a lot of astronomical observatories live out there because of the dry air. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "A Rover Finds Life in Mars-Like Barrenness in South America," 28 Feb. 2019 First, in comparison to the astronomical cost of space missions, naming rights would bring in a relative pittance. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Rocket Report: Lots of losers in small launch, Air Force award, Red (Bull) Mars," 7 Sep. 2018 Blackstone’s billions should be able to give Reuters the ability to reach billions of emerging news consumers directly, and to be able to compete with broadcasters (CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Star) that are hobbled by astronomical per-story costs. — Felix Salmon, Recode, "Reuters just got $10 billion to build a sustainable news business. How should it spend it?," 16 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'astronomical.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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