colossal

  • 11colossal — adj. 2 g. 1. Que tem dimensões de colosso. 2. Mais que agigantado. 3.  [Figurado] Enorme; imenso.   ‣ Etimologia: colosso + al …

    Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • 12colossal — /koˈlɔssal, ingl. kəˈlHs(J)l/ [vc. ingl., propr. «colossale»] s. m. inv. filmone …

    Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • 13colossal — *huge, vast, immense, enormous, elephantine, mammoth, giant, gigantic, gigantean, gargantuan, Herculean, cyclopean, titanic, Brobdingnagian Analogous words: monumental, stupendous, tremendous, prodigious, *monstrous …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 14colossal — [adj] very large barn door*, behemothic, blimp*, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, humongous*, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mondo*, monstrous, mountainous, super, titanic, vast; concept 781 Ant. small, teeny, tiny …

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  • 15colossal — Colossal, [coloss]ale. adj. De grandeur demesurée. Figure colossale …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 16colossal — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ extremely large. DERIVATIVES colossally adverb. ORIGIN from Latin colossus (see COLOSSUS(Cf. ↑colossus)) …

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  • 17COLOSSAL — ALE. adj. D une grandeur extraordinaire. Figure colossale. Monument colossal. Avoir une taille colossale. Au pluriel, il n est usité qu au féminin. Des statues colossales. Proportions colossales.   Il se dit au figuré De certaines choses qui ont… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 18colossal — co|los|sal [ kə lasl ] adjective extremely great or large: It was a colossal waste of money. a colossal achievement a colossal animal …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 19colossal — [[t]kəlɒ̱s(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED (emphasis) If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large. There has been a colossal waste of public money... The task they face is colossal. Syn: enormous, immense Derived words:… …

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  • 20colossal — UK [kəˈlɒs(ə)l] / US [kəˈlɑs(ə)l] adjective extremely great or large It was a colossal waste of money. a colossal achievement a colossal animal …

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