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towering

adjective
 
 
/ˈtaʊə.rɪŋ/ US  /ˈtaʊɚ.ɪŋ/

Definition

literary very high and making people feel respect: the towering walls of the AcropolisHigh, tall and deep very great: a towering figure in the British art world Laurence Olivier's Othello was a towering performance.EnormousBig and quite bigExtremely good
(Definition of towering adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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