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colossal

[ kuh-los-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge.
of or resembling a colossus.
(initial capital letter) Architecture. noting or pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or more stories of a building.

colossal

/ kəˈlɒsəl /

of immense size; huge; gigantic
(in figure sculpture) approximately twice life-size Compare heroic
Alsogiant architect of or relating to the order of columns and pilasters that extend more than one storey in a façade

First recorded in 1705–15; coloss(us) + -al ¹

There was The Brittany Murphy Story, dubbed a “colossal mess” by reviewers.

We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains.

But the quarantine, lifted just 10 days in, was a colossal failure.

Colossal geological forces collided: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate and the Farralon Plate.

A tiny handful of families, it is true, have managed to keep colossal wealth in their own hands over a period of many centuries.

A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.

Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.

Lady Victoria's earlier mood of colossal indifference had been dissipated by her son's return.

You first enter a large fore-court, at the extremity of which a colossal gateway leads into the inner courts.

If ever I started upon a colossal piece of folly, it was this same trip abroad.

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