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- Dictionarycolossal/kəˈlɒsl/
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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adjective. uk / kəˈlɒs. ə l / us / kəˈlɑː.s ə l / Add to word list. 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.
The meaning of COLOSSAL is of, relating to, or resembling a colossus. How to use colossal in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Colossal.
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.
Definition of colossal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Colossal can refer to an item's physical size, like a giant redwood tree, but it can also be used to describe the force or scope of something — like the colossal force of a thunderstorm that knocked down the redwood tree, or the colossal scope of your school project on the history of the redwoods that seems like it will never, ever end.
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 /
