awesome
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Definitions & Usage
Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
(colloquial, Canada, US, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
(uncountable, slang) Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
(countable, informal) A person who is awesome.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal, but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.”
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
“I think that the most fearsome attribute of these awesome creatures is their silence and the fact that one never sees them—nothing but those baleful eyes glaring unblinkingly out of the dark void behind.”
— 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “The Eyes in the Dark”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 227:
“Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.”
— 1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: