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Definition of colossal in English: colossaladjective kəˈlɒs(ə)lkəˈlɑsəl 1Extremely large or great. a colossal amount of mail Example sentencesExamples - £35,000 is a colossal amount of debt to start your working life with.
- Thanks to some very generous donations and a colossal amount of hard work, it's all taken shape.
- On the surface, it would appear to be a colossal waste of money.
- Well in fact, that 1% cut in central government is 1% of a colossal amount of our money.
- She has put on a colossal amount of weight though, so I hope she's doing ok and it's not a bad sign.
- Every one knows of the huge waiting lists of the NHS; just think what a difference the colossal amounts of money paid out in compensation would make to these!
- They spend colossal amounts of money on their dogs over there.
- I actually thought about charging for it, which would have been a colossal mistake.
- For any of them to become a reality would require a massive amount of consultation, colossal investment and a great deal of faith.
- Even at the remove of twenty years many of the key players in the dreadful tragedy could still not accept that they had made colossal mistakes on the night.
- Now we're paying a huge price for their colossal mistake.
- If you give them enough space and have a good summer, bees will store a colossal amount of honey; I got 120 pounds out of one hive on a good summer.
- It made £4500 in 1973, which was a colossal amount of money.
- I thought it was a mistake of colossal magnitude and I still do.
- So colossal was the output that Blackburn was the greatest weaving town in the world.
- The amount of money generated for the local economy in salaries alone is colossal.
- In fact, this meant a colossal amount of foreign travel.
- Yet it is a colossal mistake to concentrate on the negative aspects of our society and to be blind to so much of value.
- It's a colossal mistake to dismiss the book blog community.
- They are on all the time and use a colossal amount of electricity.
Synonyms 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 informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous - 1.1Sculpture (of a statue) at least twice life size.
Example sentencesExamples - Standing in the shadows of the colossal statues in front of the twin temples of Abu Simbel, one can only feel humble by human ingenuity, both past and present.
- Today, the colossal bronze statue of Atlas stands on the site of the Mills house.
- Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here.
- Stepping off the airplane and into the Houston humidity, the first sight I spotted was not my homesick sister Laura, but a colossal bronze statue of George H.W. Bush.
- Then, aged 26, he took on the seemingly impossible challenge of sculpting a colossal statue of the biblical hero, David, from one piece of flawed marble.
2Architecture
(of an order) having more than one storey of columns. Example sentencesExamples - Michelangelo emphasizes the massiveness of the Senators palace by using the colossal order and balustrade above a tall base.
- It is also the only building in the parish with colossal order columns.
- The five-bay front facade has a three-bay, colossal, fluted, composite order portico which is repeated on the five-bay rear façade.
Derivatives adverb The company's investment decisions were so colossally inept as to suggest an ulterior motive. Example sentencesExamples - Small businesses seeking to expand find the odds stacked colossally against them.
- What is indisputable is that they were colossally influential, spawning generations of writers desperate to mimic them.
- There's something colossally wrong with this view.
- Sport in general, and football in particular, is going through the most colossally self-important period in its history.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus (see colossus). Kolossos was the Greek word for ‘a gigantic statue’, and was originally used to describe the statues of Egyptian temples. The most famous example was the huge bronze figure of Apollo that stood beside the harbour entrance at Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was completed in 280 bc, but destroyed by an earthquake in 224 bc. This statue was known as the Colossus of Rhodes, colossus (Late Middle English) being the Latin, and subsequently English, version of the word. The idea that the statue stood astride the entrance to the harbour is widely held, but wrong. Nevertheless, it has given us the phrase bestride like a colossus, which is from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: ‘Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus.’ The Colosseum has been the name since medieval times of the Amphitheatrum Flavium, a vast amphitheatre in Rome begun by the Emperor Vespasian around ad 75 and used for gladiatorial combats, fights between men and beasts, and mock battles.
Rhymes apostle, dossal, fossil, glossal, jostle, throstle Definition of colossal in US English: colossaladjectivekəˈläsəlkəˈlɑsəl 1Extremely large. a colossal amount of mail Example sentencesExamples - So colossal was the output that Blackburn was the greatest weaving town in the world.
- If you give them enough space and have a good summer, bees will store a colossal amount of honey; I got 120 pounds out of one hive on a good summer.
- For any of them to become a reality would require a massive amount of consultation, colossal investment and a great deal of faith.
- Well in fact, that 1% cut in central government is 1% of a colossal amount of our money.
- Thanks to some very generous donations and a colossal amount of hard work, it's all taken shape.
- They spend colossal amounts of money on their dogs over there.
- Now we're paying a huge price for their colossal mistake.
- It's a colossal mistake to dismiss the book blog community.
- The amount of money generated for the local economy in salaries alone is colossal.
- Yet it is a colossal mistake to concentrate on the negative aspects of our society and to be blind to so much of value.
- Every one knows of the huge waiting lists of the NHS; just think what a difference the colossal amounts of money paid out in compensation would make to these!
- They are on all the time and use a colossal amount of electricity.
- She has put on a colossal amount of weight though, so I hope she's doing ok and it's not a bad sign.
- Even at the remove of twenty years many of the key players in the dreadful tragedy could still not accept that they had made colossal mistakes on the night.
- In fact, this meant a colossal amount of foreign travel.
- I thought it was a mistake of colossal magnitude and I still do.
- £35,000 is a colossal amount of debt to start your working life with.
- On the surface, it would appear to be a colossal waste of money.
- It made £4500 in 1973, which was a colossal amount of money.
- I actually thought about charging for it, which would have been a colossal mistake.
Synonyms 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 - 1.1Architecture (of a giant order) having more than one story of columns.
Example sentencesExamples - Michelangelo emphasizes the massiveness of the Senators palace by using the colossal order and balustrade above a tall base.
- The five-bay front facade has a three-bay, colossal, fluted, composite order portico which is repeated on the five-bay rear façade.
- It is also the only building in the parish with colossal order columns.
- 1.2Sculpture (of a statue) at least twice life size.
Example sentencesExamples - Standing in the shadows of the colossal statues in front of the twin temples of Abu Simbel, one can only feel humble by human ingenuity, both past and present.
- Stepping off the airplane and into the Houston humidity, the first sight I spotted was not my homesick sister Laura, but a colossal bronze statue of George H.W. Bush.
- Today, the colossal bronze statue of Atlas stands on the site of the Mills house.
- Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here.
- Then, aged 26, he took on the seemingly impossible challenge of sculpting a colossal statue of the biblical hero, David, from one piece of flawed marble.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus (see colossus). |