'Tremendous' definitions:
Definition of 'tremendous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: enormous, tremendous]
adjective
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" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
adjective
Definition of 'Tremendous'
From: GCIDE
- Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- A tremendous mischief was a foot. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. [1913 Webster] -- {Tre*men"dous*ly}, adv. -- {Tre*men"dous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tremendous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysmal,
- amazing,
- amplitudinous,
- appalling,
- astounding,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- boundless,
- Brobdingnagian,
- bulky,
- colossal,
- cosmic,
- cracking,
- Cyclopean,
- dire,
- direful,
- divine,
- dread,
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- epic,
- exquisite,
- extensive,
- fantastic,
- fell,
- flabbergasting,
- formidable,
- frightful,
- galactic,
- Gargantuan,
- ghastly,
- ghoulish,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- gilt-edged,
- glorious,
- golden,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heavenly,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- hideous,
- Homeric,
- 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