Colossal vs Considerable - What's the difference?
colossal | considerable | Related terms |
Extremely large or on a great scale.
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, title= Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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Colossal is a related term of considerable.
As adjectives the difference between colossal and considerable
is that colossal is extremely large or on a great scale while considerable is considerable.colossal
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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 alsoconsiderable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
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