colossal
adjective /kəˈlɒsl/
/kəˈlɑːsl/
- extremely large
- a colossal statue
- The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
- The variety of wines available is colossal.
- They have spent a colossal amount of money on construction.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryColossal is used with these nouns:- blunder
- cheek
- mistake
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus from Greek kolossos (applied by the Greek historian Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples).