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Princeton's WordNet 0. Wiktionary 5. A single puppy can make a colossal mess. Webster Dictionary 0. See Colossus. See Heroic Etymology: [Cf. Freebase 0. Suggested Resources 0. How to pronounce colossal?

Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. History and Etymology for colossal see colossus.

Learn More About colossal. Time Traveler for colossal The first known use of colossal was in See more words from the same year. Style: MLA. English Language Learners Definition of colossal. Kids Definition of colossal.

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Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different. Trying to help my yr-old grandma register to get the vaccine in NYC and boy what a colossal mess this is…. I just had that realization in the middle of getting a haircut that "I've made a colossal mistake and can't go back now". Which of the following things would NOT be described as colossal? Standing around on top of the ground trying to get your arms around this colossal problem is futile.

At exactly two miles from the starting point, we turned to our right and saw a colossal pyramid dune the color of burnt parchment. Not half a mile into the journey, I was surrounded by colossal redwoods.

The problem is that all this heating and magnetic confinement requires colossal amounts of energy. We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains. But the quarantine, lifted just 10 days in, was a colossal failure. A tiny handful of families, it is true, have managed to keep colossal wealth in their own hands over a period of many centuries. A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.

Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave. Lady Victoria's earlier mood of colossal indifference had been dissipated by her son's return.

You first enter a large fore-court, at the extremity of which a colossal gateway leads into the inner courts. If ever I started upon a colossal piece of folly, it was this same trip abroad.