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colossal

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Extremely large; विशाल or gigantic in scale; in poetry, this adjective is used to emphasize magnitude, whether in physical size or metaphorical significance, often to create awe or contrast with the minuscule.

Detailed Definition
Colossal is a strong descriptive adjective for something enormous. Shelley uses it for the wreck of the statue, emphasizing the contrast between the ruler’s grand self-image and the ruin that remains.
Example
Example in poetry:
“That colossal Wreck, boundless and bare” makes ruin immense and overwhelming; A colossal statue lies broken beside the sea; The colossal storm front swallows the afternoon; In a city poem, a colossal billboard eclipses the stars
Additional Notes
The adjective "colossal" is less everyday in this poetic context and may need a quick lookup for its sense of huge scale.; Found in the poem, Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Also Known As
gigantic immense monumental jumbo
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