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co·los·sal
 colossal
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
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adjective |
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extremely large in size, magnitude, or effect; enormous; gigantic; huge.
The museum is a colossal building.She could not face the truth, and telling her was a colossal mistake.- synonyms:
- enormous, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, mighty, monstrous, tremendous
- antonyms:
- tiny
- similar words:
- Brobdingnagian, commanding, cyclopean, exceeding, exorbitant, extraordinary, gargantuan, giant, humongous, imposing, jumbo, massive, monster, monumental, oversize, overwhelming, powerful, prodigious, vast
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big, great, herculean, towering, tremendous |
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| derivation: |
colossally (adv.) |
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