Tremendous

English

Adjective

Tremendous (comparative more Tremendous, superlative most Tremendous)

1. awe-inspiring; terrific.
2. Notable for its size, power, or excellence.

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

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

   There was a tremendous outpouring of support.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Derived terms

• tremendously

Thesaurus

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, appalling, astounding, astronomic, astronomical, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, dire, direful, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, exquisite, extensive, fantastic, fell, flabbergasting, formidable, frightful, galactic, ghastly, ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavenly, heroic, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, macabre, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, morbid, mortal, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, redoubtable, schrecklich, sensational, shocking, sizable, spacious, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, terrible, terrific, titanic, towering, vast, voluminous, weighty, wonderful

Etymology

From Latin tremendus (“fearful, terrible”), gerund form of tremere (“to tremble”), from Ancient Greek τρέμω (tremo)

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ɛndəs

Translations

awe-inspiring

Dutch: ontzagwekkend (nl)

French: formidable (fr) m.

notable for size, power or excellence

extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary

Dutch: geweldig (nl) Finnish: valtava, suunnaton, suunnattoman suuri, mahtava French: énorme (fr) German: beträchtlich (de), außerordentlich (de) Japanese: 莫大な (ja) (bakudai na)

Russian: огромный (large or great) громадный (large), неисчисляемый (uncountable), неизмеряемый (unmeasurable), очень сильный (great = strong = having effect), великий (great; rare), etc. - extremely large; огромный, высочайший (very high - speed, degree, probability etc.); экстраординарный Spanish: tremendo (es) m., tremenda (es) f.