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(kəlɒsəl)
adjective
If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
[emphasis]
There has been a colossal waste of public money.
The task they face is colossal.
Synonyms: huge, massive, vast, enormous More Synonyms of colossal
colossally adverb [ADVERB adjective]
Their policies have been colossally destructive.

colossal in British English

(kəˈlɒsəl)
adjective
1. 
of immense size; huge; gigantic
2. 
(in figure sculpture) approximately twice life-size
Compare heroic (sense 7)
3.  Also: giant architecture
of or relating to the order of columns and pilasters that extend more than one storey in a façade
Derived forms
colossally (coˈlossally)
adverb

colossal in American English

(kəˈlɑsəl)
adjective
1. 
like a colossus in size; huge; gigantic
2. 
astonishingly great; extraordinary
a colossal fool
SIMILAR WORDS:  eˈnormous
Derived forms
colossally (coˈlossally)
adverb

Examples of 'colossal' in a sentence
colossal

Tough love is required in colossal amounts right now from you to your terribly betrayed chum.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It amounts to colossal investment firepower.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This would have been a colossal task.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We will be asked to pay billions more each year in interest on our colossal national debt.
The Sun (2010)
These infections not only put us at risk but cost colossal sums to treat.
The Sun (2007)
This is failure on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Why were they helping him get such colossal amounts of food?
The Sun (2009)
Why are the retail financial services so prone to sharp practice on such a colossal scale?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Who will apologise to the public for that colossal waste?
The Sun (2015)
The mobile phone seller has hired advisers to restructure its colossal debts.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But the biggest problem of all is a colossal failure of nerve.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
This subsidy was for the colossal amount of just over a grand.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It wastes lives and potential on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is more than a colossal economic waste.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The current boom is based on colossal debt.
The Sun (2007)
It is an outcome that matters to millions of people and involves colossal amounts of money.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It represents a failure of cultural nerve on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was a colossal waste of time and resources for the tiniest of conceptual rewards.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
No politician can pretend that these colossal sums can be found without hurting very large numbers of people.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It takes a colossal failure of economic management to shake the confidence of a people in their own savings.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A lazy human blunder rendered a colossal scientific effort in vain.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This is not the Olympics, with colossal public expenditure.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The situation now is vastly different with colossal sums of money involved and GPs' motives frequently being called into question.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)

In other languages
colossal

British English: colossal ADJECTIVE
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
  • Brazilian Portuguese: colossal
  • Chinese: 巨大的
  • European Spanish: colosal
  • French: colossal
  • German: riesig
  • Italian: colossale
  • Japanese: 巨大な
  • Korean: 거대한
  • European Portuguese: colossal
  • Latin American Spanish: colosal

(adjective) 
Definition
very large in size
A colossal statue stands in the square.The task they face is colossal.
Synonyms
huge
Several painters were working on a huge piece of canvas.
massive
a massive steam boat
vast
farmers who own vast stretches of land
enormous
an enormous dust cloud blocking out the sun
immense
an immense cloud of smoke
titanic
a titanic struggle between two visions of the future
gigantic
The road is bordered by gigantic rocks.
monumental (informal)
It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assignment.
monstrous
They were erecting a monstrous edifice.
mammoth
The mammoth undertaking was completed in 18 months.
mountainous
a plan designed to reduce the company's mountainous debt
stellar (informal)
prodigious
This business generates cash in prodigious amounts.
gargantuan
a marketing event of gargantuan proportions
herculean
elephantine
His legs were elephantine.
ginormous (informal)
Brobdingnagian
humongous or humungous (informal)
supersize
Opposites
little
,
small
, minute,
average
,
tiny
,
ordinary
,
weak
,
slight
,
wee
,
miniature
,
diminutive
,
pygmy or pigmy
Seemammoth

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