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单词 colossally
释义

colossal

adjective

co·​los·​sal kə-ˈlä-səl How to pronounce colossal (audio)
1
: of, relating to, or resembling a colossus
colossal statues
2
: of a bulk, extent, power, or effect approaching or suggesting the stupendous or incredible
colossal rock formations
colossal stellar explosions
3
: of an exceptional or astonishing degree
a colossal failure
a colossal bore
colossal ambition
colossally
kə-ˈlä-sə-lē How to pronounce colossal (audio)
adverb

Synonyms

  • astronomical
  • astronomic
  • Brobdingnagian
  • bumper
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • cyclopean
  • elephantine
  • enormous
  • galactic
  • gargantuan
  • giant
  • gigantesque
  • gigantic
  • grand
  • herculean
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • Himalayan
  • huge
  • humongous
  • humungous
  • immense
  • jumbo
  • king-size
  • king-sized
  • leviathan
  • mammoth
  • massive
  • mega
  • mighty
  • monster
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • mountainous
  • oceanic
  • pharaonic
  • planetary
  • prodigious
  • super
  • super-duper
  • supersize
  • supersized
  • titanic
  • tremendous
  • vast
  • vasty
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whopping
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Example Sentences

a colossal statue of the town's founder
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Word History

Etymology

see colossus

First Known Use

1664, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

colossal

adjective

co·​los·​sal kə-ˈlä-səl How to pronounce colossal (audio)
: very large : huge
a colossal success
She gave the ball a colossal heave.

colossally

adverb

1
as in extremely
to a great degree after reading all the praise from critics, I found the play to be colossally disappointing

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • extremely
  • incredibly
  • terribly
  • very
  • highly
  • damned
  • damn
  • too
  • badly
  • severely
  • so
  • desperately
  • that
  • really
  • wildly
  • super
  • far
  • seriously
  • intensely
  • greatly
  • jolly
  • exceptionally
  • awfully
  • most
  • much
  • heavily
  • fantastically
  • mighty
  • hugely
  • immensely
  • full
  • exceedingly
  • fabulously
  • supremely
  • such
  • particularly
  • frightfully
  • awful
  • fiercely
  • absolutely
  • especially
  • real
  • uncommonly
  • enormously
  • utterly
  • surpassingly
  • vastly
  • totally
  • vitally
  • remarkably
  • exceeding
  • filthy
  • eminently
  • achingly
  • mortally
  • deadly
  • way
  • specially
  • wicked
  • completely
  • thoroughly
  • stinking
  • good and
  • extra
  • almighty
  • sorely
  • majorly
  • monstrous
  • beastly
  • a lot
  • roaringly
  • positively
  • deeply
  • archly
  • sore
  • blisteringly
  • dang
  • passing
  • rattling
  • roaring
  • unco
  • mightily
  • entirely
  • corking
  • cracking
  • whacking
  • bone
  • significantly
  • thumping
  • wholly
  • downright
  • profoundly
  • ever
  • radically
  • spanking
  • considerably
  • noticeably
  • monumentally
  • right
  • substantially
  • fully
  • obviously
  • visibly
  • as all get-out
  • notably
  • markedly
  • palpably
  • staggeringly
  • obscenely
  • purely
  • monstrously
  • extensively
  • excessively
  • astonishingly
  • astronomically
  • amazingly
  • flat-out
  • altogether
  • abundantly
  • discernibly
  • appreciably
  • plentifully
  • plainly
  • grandly
  • overmuch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • somewhat
  • slightly
  • little
  • negligibly
  • nominally
  • marginally
  • minimally
  • hardly
  • scarcely
  • just
  • barely
  • meagerly
  • scantily
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2
as in highly
to a large extent or degree the most colossally rude person she had ever met

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • highly
  • greatly
  • utterly
  • much
  • considerably
  • monumentally
  • stupendously
  • staggeringly
  • massively
  • significantly
  • hugely
  • tremendously
  • monstrously
  • enormously
  • astronomically
  • largely
  • vastly
  • broadly
  • extensively
  • a lot
  • sizably
  • noticeably
  • no end
  • by half
  • big-time
  • appreciably
  • abundantly
  • amply
  • plentifully
  • copiously
  • healthily

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • slightly
  • little
  • nominally
  • negligibly
  • modestly
  • minimally
  • hardly
  • scarcely
  • minutely
  • infinitesimally
  • barely
  • microscopically
  • just
  • fractionally
  • insignificantly
  • imperceptibly
  • invisibly
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