Definitions for colossal

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colossal co·los·sal

Spelling: [kuh-los-uh l]

IPA: /kəˈlɒs əl/

Colossal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in colossal (acllooss).

Definitions for colossal

adjective

1. extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge.
2. of or resembling a colossus.
3. (initial capital letter) Architecture. noting or pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or more stories of a building.

Origin of colossal

First recorded in 1705-15; coloss(us) + -al¹

Examples for colossal

We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains.

Everything was on a colossal scale, and trim as a Dutch interior.

colossal geological forces collided: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate and the Farralon Plate.

There was The Brittany Murphy Story, dubbed a “colossal mess” by reviewers.

All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric.

But the quarantine, lifted just 10 days in, was a colossal failure.

All else on his canvas is subordinated to the grim image of the colossal Puritan.

It was, however, a colossal flop—critically and commercially—with Lynch later regretting sacrificing final cut.

Oceans and land and sky are avenues for our colossal commerce.

Nevertheless, this colossal hospitality--apart from the fireworks--cost us nothing at all.