Synonyms:
colossal, prodigious, stupendous
Meaning: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"
Usage examples
The stupidity of people is prodigious.
The mortality among the exiles was prodigious.
"He is, as you say, a remarkable horse--a prodigious horse!
Here a prodigious slam-banging broke out below, and everybody rushed down to see.
I saw nothing in it of an extraordinary character, but its effect upon Bedloe was prodigious.
On the left huge pyramids of rock, piled one upon another, produced a prodigious titanic effect.
This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height.
Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent.
But the plain fact was that he hadn't spent a penny on it; which was no doubt the reason of the prodigious score it had since been rolling up.
Grant and Quinton continued to talk in undertones, Grant asking questions, Quinton answering with great economy of words and prodigious salivation.