Colossal

Definition: Colossal

Colossal

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "colossal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references)

Etymology: Colossal \Co*los"sal\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression colossal, from Latin expression colosseus. See Colossus.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Colossal

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Crosswords: Colossal

French (colossal, huge, monstrous, outsize, whopping), Portuguese (bloodcurdling, clinking, colossal, frabjous, gigantic, monster, monstrous, spanking, stunning, titanic, whacking, whopping).

Where the land masses split, the oceans will be sucked in, and the colossal pressure generated by the steam will rip the earth apart, and destroy it. (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White)

Your ego is absolutely colossal. (It Happened One Night; writing credit: Samuel Hopkins Adams; Robert Riskin)

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts (1962)

War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

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Books

• Colossal Earthmovers (Enthusiast Color Series) (reference)

• Dinomaze: Colossal Fossil Maze Book (reference)

• Gigantic Jumble: A Colossal Collection for Dedicated Jumblers (reference)

• The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Scary Movies but Were Afraid to Ask (reference)

• The Colossal Book of Crafts for Kids & Their Families (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Amazing Colossal Man (reference)

• The Amazing Colossal Man (reference)

• War of the Colossal Beast (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Colossal Head (reference)

• Super Colossal Smash Hits Of The 90's (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Colossal Collection (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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A colossal advertisement. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colossal statues and architectural models of ancient Mexico, new national museum, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colossal hand and torch "Liberty". Credit: Library of Congress.

The gift of France to the American people, the Bartholdi colossal statue, Liberty enlightening the world / Shugg Brothers ; R. Schwarz, Des. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

With one great effort of his colossal mind, Brown guessed it.

They were gigantic men on colossal horses

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "colossal": colossal man. Additional references.

Albanian

vigan (enormous, giant, gigantesque, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering), shumë i madh (cyclopean, exceeding, overgrown, precious), kolosal (Titanic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏واسع (ample, broad, capacious, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جبار (giant, huge, powerful, strong man, superhuman, titanic, tremendous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колосален (gigantesque), грандиозен (apocalyptic, awesome, grand, grandiose, proud, spectacular, sublime), великолепен (champion, glorious, gorgeous, grand, immense, imperial, magnificent, palatial, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, splendid, super, superb, wonderful). (various references)

Chinese 

巨大 (Bigness, huge, immense, magnitude, tremendous, Vastness). (various references)

Czech

obrovský (enormous, giant, gigantic, howling, huge, immense, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, tremendous, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), kolosální (enormous, huge, monstrous, monumental), gigantský. (various references)

Danish

kolossal (huge). (various references)

Dutch

kolossaal (huge), geweldig (enormous, huge, immense). (various references)

Esperanto

kolosa (huge). (various references)

Finnish

suunnaton (enormous, huge, immense, vast). (various references)

French

colossal, vaste (comprehensive), immense (cosmic), formidable (conspicuous), énorme, énormément. (various references)

German

riesig (enormous, enormously, gargantuan, giant, giantly, gigantic, huge, hugely, immeasurable, immense, immensely, jumbo, mammoth, mammothly, massive, monolithic, monstrous, mountainous, sprawling, tremendous, tremendously, vast, walloping). (various references)

Greek 

κολοσσιαίοσ (enormous, swingeing), κολοσσιαίος. (various references)

Hebrew 

ע� קי (enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, stupendous, walloping). (various references)

Hungarian

kolosszális (gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, whacking-great), óriási (capital, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Indonesian

luar biasa (exceptional, extraordinary, formidable, immensely, incredible, phenomenal, preternatural, remarkable, unbelievable), kolosal. (various references)

Italian

colossale (monster, whopping), mastodontico (enormous, mammoth, mastodonic, mastodontic), gigantesco (enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, mammoth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巨大な額 (colossal amount). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょ� いながく (colossal amount). (various references)

Korean 

거대한 (Enormous, Giant, Gigantic, huge). (various references)

Manx

feer vooar (giant, gigantic, massive, monumental, vast, whopping), buillvollee (enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, mammoth). (various references)

Pig Latin

olossalcay.(various references)

Portuguese

colossal (bloodcurdling, clinking, frabjous, gigantic, monster, monstrous, spanking, stunning, titanic, whacking, whopping), vasto (all-embracing, boundless, deep, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, great, huge, immense, open, spacious, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), gigantesco (bloodcurdling, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, monstrous, titanic), espantoso (appaling, appalling, astonishing, astounding, dreadful, fearsome, frightful, phenomenal, surprising, terrible, terrific, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Romanian

colosal (astronomic, astronomical, capitally, colossally, enormous, enormously, gigantic, grand, huge, jumbo, monster, monstrous, mountain, ocean-wide, smashing, some, strapping, terrible, thundering, vast), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), straşnic (clinking, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), monumental (huge, monumental), monstruos (awful, huge, monster, monstrous, monstrously, shocking, strapping, unnatural), imens (boundless, deep, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, mountain, ocean-wide, overwhelming, profound, thumping, tremendous, vast), gigantic (giant, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, monster, Titanic, vast), enorm (astonishing, awful, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping). (various references)

Russian 

колоссальный (gargantuan, stupendous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kolosalan. (various references)

Spanish

colosal (decuman, jumbo, mammoth, monumental, mountainous). (various references)

Swedish

kolossal (enormous, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monumental, sweeping, thumping, tremendous, whacking). (various references)

Turkish

muazzam (egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), kocaman (big, bulky, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), devasa (gargantuan, giant-like, gigantic, monumental), dev (colossus, cyclopean, giant, giantess, goliath, huge, kingsize, massy, monster, titan), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, confused, confusing, dazzling, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty). (various references)

Ukrainian

колосальний (decuman, huge, monumental, ocean-wide, pyramidal, stupendous, super-duper, terrific), грандіозний (andean, cosmic, grand, grandiose), неймовірний (anecdotic, anecdotical, implausible, impossible, improbable, unbelievable, unimaginable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, titanic), khổng l�" (decuman, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, monster, thumping, titanesque, titanic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "colossal": colossally. (additional references)

Words ending with "colossal": supercolossal. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Colossal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callosal, clossal, clustalv, Cocozza, colassal, colessal, collosal, colloss, collossal, colosal, colosall, coloso, coloss, colosseo, colossial, Colossio, Colosso, Colotka, colssal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: locals, salols, scalls.

-3 letters: calls, calos, class, coals, colas, cools, lasso, local, locos, ollas, salol, scall, solos.

-4 letters: alls, also, call, calo, coal, cola, cols, cool, coos, coss, lacs, lass, loca, loco, loos, loss, ocas, olla, ossa, sacs, sall, sals, sola, solo, sols.

-5 letters: all, als, ass, col, coo, cos, lac, las, loo, oca.

+2 letters: colossally.

+3 letters: alcoholisms, blastocoels, chloraloses, codswallops, oligoclases, oscillators.

+4 letters: blastocoeles, chloroplasts, colonialisms, colonialists, colonialness, oscillations, oscillograms.

+5 letters: glaciologists, isosmotically, malacologists, malocclusions, octosyllabics, octosyllables, oscillographs, seismological, supercolossal.