- noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
- resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
- heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
- of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
- very impressive; spectacular; awesome: Their burgers and fries are epic!
- an epic poem.
- epic poetry.
- any composition resembling an epic.
- something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.
- the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic.
- a long narrative poem recounting in elevated style the deeds of a legendary hero, esp one originating in oral folk tradition
- the genre of epic poetry
- any work of literature, film, etc, having heroic deeds for its subject matter or having other qualities associated with the epic
- an episode in the lives of men in which heroic deeds are performed or attempted
- denoting, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics
- of heroic or impressive proportions
