Colossal Definition

kə-lŏsəl
adjective
Like a colossus in size; huge; gigantic.
Webster's New World
Astonishingly great; extraordinary.
A colossal fool.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Colossal

  • From French colossal, formed from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossos, “giant statue”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Latin colossus colossus colossus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Colossal Sentence Examples

  • You must think I'm a colossal liar.

  • Over each, at a much higher level, is a colossal figure of an archangel - Raphael, Michael and Gabriel.

  • A colossal seated lion a little to the S.E.

  • Colossal granite obelisks were erected by only a few kings, Senwosri I.

  • The cemetery contains the remains of the Danish soldiers who fell at the battle of Idstedt (25th of July 1850), but the colossal Lion monument, erected by the Danes to commemorate their victory, was removed to Berlin in 1864.

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CCOCOL

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LALSAL

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