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colossal

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1. colossal - Adjective

2. colossal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. Richard Dawkins

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. E. E. Cummings

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. Albert Einstein

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early. Richard Dawkins

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain. Upton Sinclair

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Mark Twain

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