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Colossal vs Revolting - What's the difference?

colossal | revolting | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between colossal and revolting

is that colossal is extremely large or on a great scale while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

As a verb revolting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolting is

the action of the verb to revolt.

colossal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely large or on a great scale.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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 also

    Related terms

    * colosseum * ----

    revolting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The peasants are revolting !

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to revolt .
  • * 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
    • Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Which revolts or is repelling.
    • The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.