Awesome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Awesome \Awe"some\, a.
     1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
        --Wright.
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     2. Expressive of awe or terror.


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              An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {amazing},
              {awe-inspiring}, {awful}, {awing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  143 Moby Thesaurus words for "awesome":
     Gargantuan, affecting, aggrandized, alarming, amazing,
     amplitudinous, apotheosized, appalling, astonishing, astounding,
     astronomical, august, awe-inspiring, awful, awing, beatified, big,
     bizarre, boundless, breathtaking, bulky, canonized, colossal,
     cosmic, daunting, deified, dire, direful, divine, dread, dreaded,
     dreadful, eerie, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enormous, enshrined,
     enthroned, estimable, exalted, excellent, extensive, fearful,
     fearsome, fell, formidable, frightening, galactic, ghastly,
     ghoulish, gigantic, glorified, grand, great, grim, grisly,
     gruesome, heavenly, held in awe, hideous, high, high and mighty,
     holy, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, immortal, immortalized,
     imposing, incredible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible,
     infinite, inviolable, inviolate, king-size, large, lofty, macabre,
     magnified, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, morbid, mountainous, moving, mysterious, numinous,
     outsize, overgrown, overwhelming, prodigious, redoubtable,
     religious, reverend, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, sanctified,
     schrecklich, shocking, shrined, sizable, spacious, spiritual,
     stirring, stunning, stupefying, stupendous, sublime, supereminent,
     terrible, terrific, terrifying, throned, time-honored, titanic,
     tremendous, unbelievable, uncanny, unspeakable, untouchable,
     unutterable, vast, venerable, voluminous, weighty, weird,
     wonderful, wondrous, worshipful