Colossal
[kə'lɒs(ə)l] or [kə'lɑsl]
Definition
(adj.) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; 'colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple'; 'has a colossal nerve'; 'a prodigious storm'; 'a stupendous field of grass'; 'stupendous demand' .
Inputed by Franklin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Gigantic, huge, monstrous, immense, enormous, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean.
Typist: Ted
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GIGANTIC]
Checker: Wendy
Examples
- Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,--a colossal head, inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He started as they passed the angle of the trench--it looked like a colossal grave. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In this part of the country his load is oftenest in the shape of colossal sacks--one on each side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The _Gigantosaurus_, disinterred by a German expedition in 1912 from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Every man's hand is against us, and yet the interests at stake are colossal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Furnaces were enlarged to colossal dimensions, some being a hundred feet high and capable of yielding 80 or 100 tons of metal per day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What reality could there be in comments upon American politics which ignored the colossal phenomenon of Roosevelt? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Within the temple, the ornamentation was elaborate and colossal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Baseball (not so much for those who play it), is a colossal phenomenon in American life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the Count, apparently, sees nothing ridiculous in the amazing contrast between his colossal self and his frail little pets. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yes, it is a colossal thing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Wendy