awesome
Adjective Satellite
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; ; ; ; - Melville
- "the awesome complexity of the universe"
Adj
- Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
- Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
Noun
- Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
- A person who is awesome.
Adjective
- Extremely impressive or inspiring great admiration.
Examples
- Awesome, dude!
- made of awesome
- pure awesome
- That was an awesome move, using a blank tile to spell MUGWUMP.
- That was awesome!
- The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
- The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
Origin / Etymology
From awe + -some; compare earlier awful and Middle English eiful (“inducing fright or terror, terrible”), from Old English eġeful (“fearful; inspiring awe”).
The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common colloquial expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.
Synonyms
amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing, ace, admirable, astounding, awesome, awesome sauce, awesomesauce, bang on, bang-up, based, beneship, bewildering, bitching, bomb, brilliant, bully, cher, choice, chronic, chur, cock on, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, cushty, dank, def, dope, enchanting, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary, fab, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantastic, finger-lickin' good, fireball, first-rate, fly, frabjous, gnarly, goshwow, grand, grandiose, great, grouse, hellagood, impressive, inspiring, kicking, killer, lash, lautitious, lit, magnificent, majestic, major, marvellous, marvelous, mystifying, mythic, nang, out of sight, outstanding, peng, phat, phenomenal, powerful, pukka, quality, rad, radical, rum, selcouth, sick, slap-up, slick, spiffing, splendid, sterling, stupefying, stupendous, super, superb, superior, surpassing, sweet, swell, terrific, tight, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, topping, tubular, unbelievable, unreal, wicked, wicked pissah, wonderful, wondrous, worldie
Scrabble Score: 12
awesome: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordawesome: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
awesome: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary