Word Meanings - COLOSSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic. (more info) 1. Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLOSSAL)

• Enormous
• Huge
• immense
• gigantic
• colossal
• elephantine
• vast
• gross
• monstrous
• prodigious
• Gigantic
• Colossal
• huge
• enormous
• herculean
• giant
• cyclopean
• bulky
• large
• great
• stupendous
• Massive
• Solid
• weighty
• mighty
• Vast
• Waste
• wild
• desolate
• extensive
• spacious
• wide spread
• wide
• boundless
• measureless
• far-reaching

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLOSSAL)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to COLOSSAL)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• IMMENSENESS
  The state of being immense.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• GIANTIZE
  To play the giant. Sherwood.
• CYCLOPEAN
  Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)