colossalとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French colossal, formed from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant statue”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒsəl/
• 韻: -ɒsəl

形容詞

colossal (comparative more colossal, superlative most colossal)

1. Extremely large or on a great scale.
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

   A single puppy can make a colossal mess.

   • 2017 April 23, “Ivanka & Jared”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 10, HBO:

     What is wrong with you, you colossal fucking creep⁉ You found the only possible wrong answer to that question! “What’s your favorite color? Hitler.”

2. Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     "It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused. "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."

同意語

• (extremely large): enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

関連する語

• colosseum
• colossus

アナグラム

• alcosols