awesome🔊

Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.

📑 Synonyms: awe-inspiring

💬 Quotations

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal, but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1887)

I think that the most fearsome attribute of these awesome creatures is their silence and the fact that one never sees them—nothing but those baleful eyes glaring unblinkingly out of the dark void behind.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars (1913)

(colloquial, Canada, US, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

(slang) The quality, state, or essence of being awesome.

📑 Synonyms: awesome sauce

(informal) A person who is awesome.

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