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# colossal

«colossal» in Mova's school dictionary: **extremely large, huge, enormous** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (colossal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Colossal means extremely large, huge, enormous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#m1)

2) (informal) Colossal also means very great in amount or degree («a colossal mistake», «a colossal waste»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, colossal giants, waves and buildings show huge size. In history lessons the Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world; «colossal» comes from it. In everyday talk «colossal» exaggerates for effect.

### examples

- A colossal wave crashed over the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x1)
- The blue whale is a colossal animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x2)
- The pyramids are colossal stone buildings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x3)
- We ate a colossal pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x4)
- Losing the key was a colossal mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x5)
- The storm did colossal damage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x6)
- The giant took colossal steps across the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x7)
- This colossal statue was 39 feet high, and was composed of ivory and gold; its majestic beauty formed the chief attraction of the temple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/#x8)

### note

Spelling: col-OSS-al, double s, one l at the end. Strong word: it is bigger than «big» and «large». Similar: enormous, gigantic, huge, massive.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colossal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colossal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.