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super-colossal

/kuh-los-uhl/US // kəˈlɒs əl //UK // (kəˈlɒsəl) //

超级巨无霸,超级巨大的,超大型的,超级巨大

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge.
    • : of or resembling a colossus.
    • : Architecture. noting or pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or more stories of a building.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ingargantuan
as ingigantic

Examples

  • 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.

  • When Qwikster proved a colossal failure, the mistake was Hastings’s own.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.