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Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.

aggettivo

1
Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
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.
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.
2
Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
That was awesome!
Awesome, dude!
Awesome! Totally awesome! All right, Hamilton!

Etimologia

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.

sostantivo

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informaleA person who is awesome.
When an awesome is dreadful and making even the living of a common person miserable then someone from the community must stand up to resist the dreadful and check the excesses.
“Or as I like to think of it, the wusses versus the awesomes.”
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Variante di awesomenessgergoClipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
pure awesome
made of awesome
Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.
Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.

Forme

comparativo: more awesome, awesomer
superlativo: most awesome, awesomest

awe · A feeling of fear and reverence.Awe · A surname.AWE · The station code of AsiaWorld–Expo in Hong Kong.

awesome · Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.

awful · Very bad.awfully · Badly, terribly.awhile · For some time; for a short time.

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