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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. a colossal failure. a colossal bore. colossal ambition. colossally. kə-ˈlä-sə-lē.
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.
colossal. /kəˈlɑsəl/ /kəˈlɒsəl/ IPA guide. Other forms: colossally. Colossal describes something so large it makes you say, "Whoa!" You might have a colossal amount of homework, or see a colossal pyramid while vacationing in Egypt.
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.
Definition of colossal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
A complete guide to the word "COLOSSAL": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
adjective. uk / kəˈlɒs ə l / us. Add to word list. extremely large: colossal amounts of money. (Definition of colossal from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of colossal. in Chinese (Traditional) 巨大的，龐大的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 巨大的，庞大的… See more. in Spanish. colosal… See more. in Portuguese.
