The difference between Colossal and Giant

When used as adjectives, colossal means extremely large or on a great scale, whereas giant means very large.


Giant is also noun with the meaning: a mythical human of very great size.

check bellow for the other definitions of Colossal and Giant

  1. Colossal as an adjective:

    Extremely large or on a great scale.

    Examples:

    "A single puppy can make a colossal mess."

  1. Giant as a noun:

    A mythical human of very great size.

  2. Giant as a noun (mythology):

    Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

  3. Giant as a noun:

    A very tall person.

  4. Giant as a noun:

    A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

  5. Giant as a noun (astronomy):

    A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

  6. Giant as a noun (computing):

    An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

  7. Giant as a noun:

    A very large organisation.

    Examples:

    "The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains."

  8. Giant as a noun:

    A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

  9. Giant as a noun:

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  1. Giant as an adjective:

    Very large.