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tremendous
[ trih-men-duhs ]
adjective
- extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity:
a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- extraordinary in excellence:
a tremendous movie.
- dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.
tremendous
/ trɪˈmɛndəs /
adjective
- vast; huge
- informal.very exciting or unusual
- informal.(intensifier)
a tremendous help
- archaic.terrible or dreadful
Derived Forms
- treˈmendousness, noun
- treˈmendously, adverb
Other Words From
- tre·men·dous·ly adverb
- tre·men·dous·ness noun
- un·tre·men·dous adjective
- un·tre·men·dous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of tremendous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of tremendous1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
“When I first met her I felt this tremendous surge of power,” he explained.
This could create tremendous opportunity for a broad swath of the rustbelt population.
“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.
This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.
Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
And then several hours at Liszt's, where one succession of concertos, fantasias, and all sorts of tremendous things are played.
We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.
Obviously a tremendous question arises here as to how a story should be found in Genesis xiv.
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