emphasis If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large. There has been a colossal waste of public money The task they face is colossal. = enormous, immense + colossally co·los·sal·ly Their policies have been colossally destructive. used to emphasize that something is extremely large
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"