awesome
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
awesome
- (dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]
- The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
- The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
- (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
- That was awesome!
- Awesome, dude!
- (causing awe or terror) see Thesaurus:awesome or Thesaurus:wonderful
- (excellent) see Thesaurus:excellent
- French: impressionnant, terrifiant
- German: furchteinflößend, fürchterlich, furchterregend
- Italian: impressionante
- Portuguese: apavorante, aterrador
- Russian: устраша́ющий
- French: magnifique, (formally or slang) génial, formidable
- German: großartig, beeindruckend, (slang) toll
- Italian: magnifico, splendido, fantastico
- Portuguese: incrível
- Russian: круто́й
- Spanish: tremendo, piola
awesome (uncountable)
- (slang) Short for awesomeness#English|awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
- 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619, page 6 ↗:
- Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.
- 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9780312643744, page 189 ↗:
- Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
- 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury (2010), ISBN 9781599903422, page 150 ↗:
- “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”
- pure awesome; made of awesome
- 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619, page 6 ↗:
- awesome sauce (slang)
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