Tremendous

3 definitions found

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

  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.


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           A tremendous mischief was a foot.        --Motley.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible;
          awful.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Tre*men"dous*ly}, adv. --
          {Tre*men"dous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tremendous
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {enormous}]
       2: extraordinarily good; 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" [syn: {fantastic}, {howling(a)}, {marvelous},
           {marvellous}, {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {wonderful}, {wondrous}]

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

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "tremendous":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, appalling, astounding,
     astronomic, astronomical, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless,
     bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, dire, direful, divine, dread,
     dreaded, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, exquisite,
     extensive, fantastic, fell, flabbergasting, formidable, frightful,
     galactic, ghastly, ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic,
     gilt-edged, glorious, golden, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavenly,
     heroic, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo,
     king-size, large, macabre, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous,
     massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, morbid,
     mortal, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound,
     redoubtable, schrecklich, sensational, shocking, sizable, spacious,
     splendid, splendiferous, sterling, stupendous, super, superb,
     supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, terrible, terrific,
     titanic, towering, vast, voluminous, weighty, wonderful