Vocabulary
Colossal
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
extremely large or great.
Urdu meaning
دیوہیکل، بھاری، شاندار
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- If, Godforbid, Palestine dies, the Arab and Muslim world will face a colossal moral and civilisational failure, which it may not survive.
- Karachi suffered a colossal loss of more than Rs1,000bn, or one trillion rupees, after the seventh NFC under the OZT head alone.
- By the end of this ongoing colossal disaster, 45 may become 50.
- If the reports are correct, flood water will do colossal damage to the Sialkot district.
- IF we are to believe the good people at Colossal Biosciences, dire wolves are walking the earth again after having gone extinct some 12,000 years ago.
Synonyms
huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, very big, very large, great, giant, mammoth
Curator example
“a colossal amount of mail”
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