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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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magnificent
English
Etymology
From Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficens, a form of -ficiens, the regular form, in compounds, of faciens, a participle of facere (“to do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ??n?f?s?nt/
- Hyphenation: mag?nif?i?cent
Adjective
magnificent (comparative more magnificent, superlative most magnificent)
- Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
- Grand or noble in action.
- Exceptional for its kind.
Derived terms
- magnificently
- magnificent frigatebird
Related terms
- magnificence
- beneficent
- maleficent
- munificent
Translations
Further reading
- magnificent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- magnificent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- magnificent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latin
Verb
magnificent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of magnific?
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