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colossal adjective [ kəˈlɒs(ə)l ]

• extremely large or great.
• "a colossal amount of mail"
Similar: huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, very big, very large, great, giant, mammoth, vast, cosmic, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial, extensive, hefty, bulky, weighty, heavy, gross, mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic, whacking, whacking great, ginormous,
Opposite: tiny,
• (of an order) having more than one storey of columns.
Origin: early 18th century: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus (see colossus).


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