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English Dictionary: tremendous |
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2 results for tremendous |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- tremendous
- adj
- extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or
power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
Synonym(s): enormous, tremendous
- extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
Synonym(s): fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
Synonym(s): frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be
trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See {Tremble}.]
Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or
terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible;
dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a
tremendous shock or fall.
A tremendous mischief was a foot. --Motley.
Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible;
awful. -- {Tre*men"dous*ly}, adv. --
{Tre*men"dous*ness}, n.
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