Colossal vs Brobdingnagian - What's the difference?
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Extremely large or on a great scale.
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(figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
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Colossal is a related term of brobdingnagian.
As adjectives the difference between colossal and brobdingnagian
is that colossal is extremely large or on a great scale while brobdingnagian is of or pertaining to brobdingnag.As a noun brobdingnagian is
a creature from brobdingnag.colossal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Synonyms
* (extremely large) enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsobrobdingnagian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
- The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
- Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.