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English Dictionary: tremendous	by the DICT Development Group
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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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tremendous \Tremen"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. -- {Tremen"dously}, adv. -- {Tremen"dousness}, n.