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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/
  • (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /??s.?m/

Adjective

awesome (comparative more awesome or awesomer, superlative most awesome or awesomest)

  1. (dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]
    Synonyms: awe-inspiring; see also Thesaurus:awesome
  2. (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)

  1. (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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dangerous

English

Etymology

From Middle English dangerous (difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (threatening, difficult), from dangier. Equivalent to danger +? -ous.

Displaced native Old English fr?cne.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?de?n?(?)??s/, /?de?nd??(?)??s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?de?nd?????s/, /?de?nd????s/, /?de?nd???s/, /?de?n???s/
  • Hyphenation: dan?ger?ous

Adjective

dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)

  1. Full of danger.
    • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
    • 1688, Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
      If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
  3. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  4. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
    • My wages ben fule straite, and eke full smale; / My lorde is harde to me and daungerous.
  5. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
    • Of his speech daungerous

Usage notes

The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous; the forms dangerouser and dangerousest or dangerest exist but are nonstandard.

Synonyms

(full of danger):

  • hazardous
  • perilous
  • risky
  • unsafe
  • See also Thesaurus:dangerous

Antonyms

  • (full of danger): safe, harmless

Derived terms

  • dangerous goods

Related terms

  • danger
  • dangerously

Translations

Anagrams

  • nose guard, noseguard

Occitan

Adjective

dangerous m (feminine singular dangerouso, masculine plural dangerous, feminine plural dangerousos)

  1. (Mistralian) Alternative form of dangeirós

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