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1. (adj.) tremendous
extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity:
a tremendous ocean liner.
2. tremendous
extraordinary in excellence:
a tremendous movie.
3. tremendous
dreadful or awful; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.
Etymology: (1625–35; < L tremendus dreadful, to be shaken by, ger. of tremere to shake, quake; see -ous)
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| Definition of 'tremendous' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) enormous, tremendous
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
"an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
2. (adj) fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
"a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
3. (adj) frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
"in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
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1. (adjective) tremendous
very great
The effort they all made was tremendous.; a tremendous responsibility; a tremendous shame
2. tremendous
very good
We had a tremendous time.; They did tremendously well.; We are tremendously disappointed.
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| Definition of 'tremendous' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) tremendous
fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall
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Sense: very large; very great
That required a tremendous effort; The response to our appeal was tremendous.
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 Afrikaans: vreeslik |
 Arabic: هائِل، ضَخْم |
 Bulgarian: огромен |
 Brazilian: extraordinário |
 Czech: obrovský |
 German: gewaltig |
 Danish: enorm |
 Greek: τρομερός, καταπληκτικός |
 Spanish: tremendo, enorme |
 Estonian: kohutav |
 Farsi: عظیم؛ فوق العاده |
 Finnish: valtava |
 French: énorme |
 Hebrew: אַדִיר |
 Hindi: बहुत अच्छा |
 Croatian: golem, ogroman |
 Hungarian: óriási |
 Indonesian: besar sekali |
 Icelandic: gífurlegur |
 Italian: enorme, straordinario |
 Japanese: とても大きい |
 Korean: 굉장한 |
 Lithuanian: begalinis, milžiniškas |
 Latvian: milzīgs; ārkārtīgs |
 Malay: hebat |
 Dutch: enorm |
 Norwegian: enorm, voldsom |
 Polish: ogromny |
 Persian: عظیم؛ فوق العاده |
 Pashto: ستر، فوق العاده |
 Portuguese: extraordinário |
 Romanian: imens; uluitor |
 Russian: огромный |
 Slovak: obrovský |
 Slovenian: velikanski |
 Serbian: ogroman |
 Swedish: kolossal, väldig, enorm |
 Thai: ใหญ่โตมาก |
 Turkish: çok büyük, kocaman |
 Taiwanese: 極大的 |
 Ukrainian: величезний; приголомшливи |
 Urdu: زبردست، عظيم |
 Vietnamese: ghê gớm, bao la |
 Chinese: 极大的 |
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