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trɪˈmɛn dəstremen·dous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enormous, tremendousadjective

    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. fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrousadjective

    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. frightful, terrible, awful, tremendousadjective

    extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

    "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"

Wiktionary

  1. tremendousadjective

    awe-inspiring; terrific.

  2. tremendousadjective

    Notable for its size, power, or excellence.

    Van Beethoven's ninth symphony is a tremendous piece of music.

  3. tremendousadjective

    Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great

    There was a tremendous outpouring of support.

  4. Etymology: From tremendus, gerund form of tremo, from τρέμω

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tremendousadjective

    Dreadful; horrible; astonishingly terrible.

    Etymology: tremendus, Latin.

    There stands an altar where the priest celebrates some mysteries sacred and tremendous. Tatler, №. 57.

    In that portal shou’d the chief appear,
    Each hand tremendous with a brazen spear. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

Wikipedia

  1. tremendous

    HMS Tremendous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the lines of HMS Ganges by William Barnard's yard at Deptford Green, and launched on 30 October 1784.

ChatGPT

  1. tremendous

    Tremendous typically refers to something that is extremely large in quantity, scale, degree, level, or intensity. It can also mean something that is extremely good or impressive. So, it is a term that shows an extreme point of quantity or quality.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tremendousadjective

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tremendous

    trē-men′dus, adj. such as astonishes or terrifies by its force or greatness: dreadful.—adv. Tremen′dously.—n. Tremen′dousness.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tremendous' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1846

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tremendous' in Adjectives Frequency: #603

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tremendous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tremendous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of tremendous in a Sentence

  1. Stephanie Schriock:

    We're seeing a huge show of strength from our more than 3 million members this year, and they're building tremendous momentum to elect more women who are on the right side of the issues that matter to women and families, with Republicans advancing their extreme, anti-woman agenda, never has it been more important to elect more pro-choice Democratic women at all levels.

  2. Donald Trump:

    After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it's not so easy, i felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power (over) North Korea. ... But it's not what you would think.

  3. Fraser Howie:

    (Developers) seem to get caught up in the political economy ... which effectively leads to a tremendous number of bad decisions because you’re now making investments based on political whim and political winds, rather than actual sound business sense.

  4. Donald Trump:

    We won, we won together. We have tremendous evangelical support. We have tremendous support from every angle, you can't break up a team like that.

  5. Lee Drutman:

    The legitimacy of elections is under tremendous fire, the amount of litigation, of challenges, the attempts to game electoral laws, is through the roof. At a certain point, if the greatest enemy is the other party and nothing is seen as legitimate unless your side wins, you don't have that shared sense of fairness that democracy depends on.

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