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awesome
English
Etymology
From awe +? -some; compare Old English e?eful (“fearful; inspiring awe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???s?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??s.?m/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??s.?m/
Adjective
awesome (comparative more awesome or awesomer, superlative most awesome or awesomest)
- (dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]
- Synonyms: awe-inspiring; see also Thesaurus:awesome
- (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent
Usage notes
The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common slang 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.
The comparative and superlative forms awesomer and awesomest are generally regarded as nonstandard.
Antonyms
- aweless
Derived terms
- awesome sauce (slang)
- awesomely
- awesomeness
- awesomenessness (nonce word, rare, nonstandard)
- awesometastic
Related terms
- awe-inspiring
- awful
Translations
Noun
awesome (uncountable)
- (slang) Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
- Synonym: (slang) awesome sauce
- Antonyms: (slang) fail, (vulgar) shit, (slang) weaksauce
- 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ?ISBN, page 6:
- Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.
- 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press (2011), ?ISBN, page 189:
- Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
- 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury (2010), ?ISBN, page 150:
- “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”
Further reading
- awesome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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awesomeness
English
Etymology
awesome +? -ness
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ô?s?mn?s, IPA(key): /???s?mn?s/
Noun
awesomeness (uncountable)
- The quality of being awesome.
- 2004, Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality (page 151)
- Traditional religions try to capture the awesomeness and subdue the terror with their sense of fate, as did Nietzsche. We should not deny that such notions are naturalistic just because they are also religious.
- 2004, Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality (page 151)
Derived terms
- awesomenessness (nonce)
Translations
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