Colossal vs Multitudinous - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between colossal and multitudinous

is that colossal is extremely large or on a great scale while multitudinous is existing in great numbers; innumerable.

(en adjective)

Extremely large or on a great scale.

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* (extremely large) enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See also

(en adjective)

Existing in great numbers; innumerable.

"...the multitudinous seas incarnadine..." Shakespeare.

crowded with many people

* myriad