colossally
3
5.8
- adverb
- /kəˈlɑːsəli/
:
colosalmente
- That was a colossally stupid thing to do!
- colossally bad
That is colossally untrue, unfair, and unhelpful.
- That is colossally untrue, unfair, and unhelpful.
- And yes, the scale here is colossally different, but you still get a wave effect, a reflection, and a through that follows the wave tick tock, tick tock.
Examples
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If that bothered me, I'd have no time to do anything but be bothered by how willfully, colossally ignorant people are.
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To assert that science has no scrutiny is so colossally dishonest or ignorant.
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If you wanted to fix this, you'd have to do something really big, something colossally stupid.
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The truth is that we live in a country where the system of food production is colossally flawed.
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The way I hear it, you were primarily responsible... for this colossally stupid prank.
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That is colossally untrue, unfair, and unhelpful.
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It is clearer every day that the people of this country have been colossally scammed.
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300 years of peace and harmony... undone by one colossally, incredibly... stupendously stupid sloth!
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And the fact that George Bush went overboard and did some colossally stupid things in the name of protecting the place I live in does not mean that it shouldn't be protected at all, or that the government should not use secrecy while protecting it.
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His explanation was colossally complex, making it difficult for anyone to understand.
Synonyms
584
2.3
To a very great degree
350
1.0
By a very large amount
236
3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
129
3.1
To a very large degree
128
3.5
To a very large degree
103
3.0
By a very large amount
70
3.5
To a very large degree
57
4.6
To a very great degree
47
3.4
To a great degree
38
3.5
To a great degree and in an impressive way
26
4.5
To a very high degree
21
3.5
To a very great degree
17
5.2
To a very great degree
12
3.6
To a very high degree
10
5.4
To a very great degree that you cannot count
8
4.4
Says that something is extremely large, important, or impressive
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
5.8
To be much larger or higher than normal
7
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
6
7.4
To a very large degree
5
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
2
7.7
In a very large and impressive way
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
1
3.7
In a very large and clearly visible way
1
7.6
By a very large amount that cannot be measured
1
8.9
In a very large way
1
7.1
In a very large and powerful way
1
8.4
To a very high degree
To a very large degree
In a way that makes something look very tall or impressive
Antonyms
How Strongly
3
5.8
∞
1.0
144
3.4
895
1.0
816
2.0
885
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Colossally comes from the word colossus, the name for a giant statue long ago, and from colossal, which gives the image of something very huge. So, to do something colossally is to do it 'to an extremely great or enormous degree'.