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Colossal Force Redwood Tree Scope Kə'Lɑːsl Adj.巨大的 Empire

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Pron [kə'lɑːsl]
Back 【colossal】
adj.巨大的
The Empire State Building is a colossal structure.
帝国大厦是巨大的建筑物。
Vocab
colossalso great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

Colossal describes something so large it makes you say, "Whoa!" You might have a colossal amount of homework, or see a colossal pyramid while vacationing in Egypt.

Colossal can refer to an item's physical size, like a giant redwood tree, but it can also be used to describe the force or scope of something — like the colossal force of a thunderstorm that knocked down the redwood tree, or the colossal scope of your school project on the history of the redwoods that seems like it will never, ever end. It comes from the Greek word kolossos, meaning "gigantic statue."

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