extremely large 巨大的;庞大的 a colossal statue 巨大的雕像 The singer earns a colossal amount of money. 那歌手现在可赚大钱了。 The variety of wines available is colossal. 可供选择的葡萄酒种类繁多。 They have spent a colossal amount of money on construction. 他们已在建设工作上投入了巨资。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryColossal is used with these nouns:- blunder
- cheek
- mistake
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Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus from Greek kolossos (applied by the Greek historian Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples).