Definition of "colossal" []

• Of a size, extent, or degree that elicits awe or taxes belief; immense. See Synonyms at enormous. (adjective)

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• "He uses the word colossal when something truly irks him."
• "Plus, former President Bill Clinton warning fellow Democrats against what he calls a colossal blunder."
• "At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered."