Usually means: Extremely large, massive, or enormous.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word colossal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. colossal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. colossal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colossal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colossal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colossal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colossal, colossal: Wordnik
  7. colossal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. colossal: Wiktionary
  9. colossal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colossal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colossal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colossal, colossal: Dictionary.com
  13. colossal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. colossal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Colossal (band), Colossal (blog), Colossal (chestnut), Colossal (film), Colossal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Colossal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. colossal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. colossal: Rhymezone
  19. colossal, colossal(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. colossal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Colossal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. colossal: Free Dictionary
  23. colossal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. colossal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. colossal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colossal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colossal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colossal: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colossal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Extremely large or on a great scale.
adjective:  Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.

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