awesome : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: awesome	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awesome adj inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" Synonym(s): amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awesome \Awe"some\, a. 1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. --Wright. 2. Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W. Scott.