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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

Homeric

adjective: relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him; "Homeric Greek"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Homeric \Ho*mer"ic\, adjective [L. Homericus, Gr. "Omhriko's.] Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.

{Homeric verse}, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "Homeric": Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, astronomic, bardic, bucolic, colossal, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, idyllic, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, mock-heroic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prodigious, profound, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast

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