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adjective
- 1. extremely large or great: "a colossal amount of mail"
- 2. (of an order) having more than one storey of columns.
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extremely large: In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold. They were asking a colossal amount of money for the house. Synonyms. prodigious formal. stupendous. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount. big They live in a big house in the country.
1. : of, relating to, or resembling a colossus. colossal statues. 2. : of a bulk, extent, power, or effect approaching or suggesting the stupendous or incredible. colossal rock formations. colossal stellar explosions. 3. : of an exceptional or astonishing degree.
What does colossal mean? Colossal describes something as being very large in size, degree, or amount, as in I went to a colossal shopping mall that stretched for a mile . If something is colossal , it is enormous, gigantic, or massive.
adjective. us / kəˈlɑː.s ə l / uk / kəˈlɒs. ə l / Add to word list. extremely large: In the center of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold. They were asking a colossal amount of money for the house. Synonyms. prodigious formal. stupendous. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples.
adjective. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe. “ colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple”. “has a colossal nerve”. synonyms: prodigious, stupendous. big, large. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large. There has been a colossal waste of public money. American English : colossal / kəˈlɒsəl /
colossal geological forces collided: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate and the Farralon Plate.
Definition of colossal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Astonishingly great; extraordinary. A colossal fool. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: stupendous. prodigious. long-legged. leggy. humongous. vast. titanic. monumental. monstrous. immense. huge. enormous. gigantic. great. big. Antonyms: teeny. tiny. small.
Define colossal. colossal synonyms, colossal pronunciation, colossal translation, English dictionary definition of colossal. adj. 1. Of great size, extent, or amount; immense. See Synonyms at enormous. 2. Of great scope or consequence; monumental: a colossal blunder.
