awesome

Comparative

more awesome

Superlative

most awesome

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.

   • The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
   • The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
   • Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.

2. 2.Excellent, exciting, remarkable.(colloquial)

   • Awesome! Totally awesome! All right, Hamilton!

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).(slang)

   • Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
   • “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”
   • Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.

2. 2.A person who is awesome.(informal)

   • “Or as I like to think of it, the wusses versus the awesomes.”
   • When an awesome is dreadful and making even the living of a common person miserable then someone from the community must stand up to resist the dreadful and check the excesses.

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