Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of great size, extent, or amount; immense. synonym: enormous.
- adjective Of great scope or consequence; monumental.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a colossus; of extraordinary size; huge; gigantic.
- Synonyms Immense, enormous, prodigious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of enormous size; gigantic; huge.
- adjective (Sculpture & Painting) Of a size larger than heroic. See
Heroic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Extremely large or on agreat scale.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He uses the word colossal when something truly irks him.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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He uses the word colossal when something truly irks him.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Plus, former President Bill Clinton warning fellow Democrats against what he calls a colossal blunder.
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Though anti-drug organizations like the Partnership gladly re-enforce all of these supposed stoner traits, the media has piled on with constant jokey references to pot-heads adding "dude" to every sentence (ok, maybe that one's true, dude) with their groggy heads buried in colossal sized bags of Doritos.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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Though anti-drug organizations like the Partnership gladly re-enforce all of these supposed stoner traits, the media has piled on with constant jokey references to pot-heads adding "dude" to every sentence (ok, maybe that one's true, dude) with their groggy heads buried in colossal sized bags of Doritos.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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Though anti-drug organizations like the Partnership gladly re-enforce all of these supposed stoner traits, the media has piled on with constant jokey references to pot-heads adding "dude" to every sentence (ok, maybe that one's true, dude) with their groggy heads buried in colossal sized bags of Doritos.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.
Chapter 13 2010
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I drift with the crowd out of the square into a tangle of narrow streets, where the public-houses are a-roar with drunkenness, men, women, and children mixed together in colossal debauch.
CORONATION DAY 2010
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And so it was that the whole population of San Francisco went forth next day in colossal frolic upon the hills that overlooked the sea.
Goliah 2010
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At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal ni. htmlare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.
Louises commented on the word colossal
Iowa. Nebraska. Wyoming. Utah. Those unritzy states of seared openess, giant arenas for the colossal geometry of light and weather. Here the main performance is still planetary, a lumbering introspective working-out of masses and pressures yielding huge accidents of beauty: thunderheads like floating anvils; a sudden blizzard. Geological time, it dawns on you, is still going on. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 12, 2012