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Colossal

//kəˈlɒsəl// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely large or on a great scale.

    "A single puppy can make a colossal mess."

  2. 2
    Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.

    ""It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused. "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe wordnet

Etymology

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

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