Awesome

Definition: Awesome

Awesome

Adjective

1. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "awesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Awesome

Crosswords: Awesome

She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It was awesome! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Varian, a man from the 23rd century, possessing awesome powers; from 1977; Fred, a young doctor just out of medical school; Scott Jordan, the thirteen-year-old son of a famous scientist; Liana, daughter of an Atlantean father and an extraterrestrial mother; and Jonathan Willaway, a rebel scientist from the 1960s. Together they face the frightening unknown on The Fantastic Journey (The Fantastic Journey; writing credit: Katharyn Michaelian Powers; Michael Michaelian)

We were awesome! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Oh come on man it'll be great they have these new cookies at the cookie stand you have to try 'em they're awesome (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Your most awesome work was done ("El Shaddai"; performing artist: Amy Grant)

I had a dream I had an awesome dream (Say You, Say Me; performing artist: Lionel Richie)

Have an awesome day, and know that someone has thought about you today! (references; author: unknown)

Euro Angels 22: Awesome Asses! (2000)

Awesome Interiors (1994)

NBA Awesome Endings (1989)

Norman's Awesome Experience (1988)

Totally Awesome (1985)

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Books

• The Awesome News: Interpretation of Juz 'Amma, the Last Part of the Qur'an (reference)

• Look Great Sleeveless: The Ultimate Workout Guide to Awesome Arms, Beautiful Bust, and Sultry Shoulders (reference)

• Nick Huckleberry Beak's Awesome Juggling Tricks (Fun Factory) (reference)

• Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy & Awesome (reference)

• The Incredible Secret Formula Book: Make Your Own Rock Candy, Jelly Snakes, Face Paint, Slimy Putty, and 55 More Awesome Things (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• World's Most Awesome Record Breakers (reference)

• Donna Richardson: Step & Awesome Abs (reference)

• National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Awesome Animal Builders (reference)

• Tony Little: Private Session - Awesome Abs (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Awesome Classics (reference)

• How Awesome This Place (reference)

• Awesome Powerful Mine (reference)

• Now That's Awesome (reference)

• Songs 4 Worship: Kids - Awesome God (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 120 Awesome Games (reference)

• Awesome Possum (reference)

• AweSome Animated Monster Maker Math (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The awesome eye wall of Hurricane Allen. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

tmerrues (appalling, awe inspiring, deterrent, dreadful, fearful, grisly, horrific, lurid, monstrous, terrifying), mbresëlënës (spectacular), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهيب (august, awful, fearful, grand, imposing, magnificent, majestic, portly, solemn, sublime, venerable), ‏موقع فى النفس الرهبة, ‏مرعب (alarming, appalling, dreadful, frightening, frightful, hair raising, horrible, horrific, horrifying, terrible, terrific, terrifying), ‏مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхотен (devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), страховит (creepy, fearsome, macabre, scary), страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, scary, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wicked), грандиозен (apocalyptic, colossal, grand, grandiose, proud, spectacular, sublime), внушителен (compulsive, gallant, grave, handsome, heroic, imperial, imposing, impressive, noble, portly, proud, towering), величествен (grand, imperial, jovian, kingly, lofty, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, olympian, proud, regal, royal, sculpturesque, stately, statuesque, sublime), величав (noble). (various references)

Chinese 

令人敬畏. (various references)

Czech

hrùzný (apocalyptic, creepy, ghastly, harrowing, horrid, horrific, horrifying, scary), dìsivý (appalling, bloodcurdling, eerie, eery, frightening, horrifying, nightmarish), úchvatný (awe inspiring, enthralling, fascinating, rapturous, ravishing). (various references)

Farsi 

پرازترس وبیم , مایه هیبت یاحرمت , ناشی ازبیم , وحشت اور (Gruesome, Morbid, Terrible), حاکی ازترس , ترس اور (Bloodcurdling). (various references)

French

terrifiant (awful), impressionnant (awe inspiring), imposant (awe inspiring). (various references)

German

ehrfurchtgebietend (authoritative, formidable, redoubtable). (various references)

Greek 

προκάλωντας δέος, φοβερόσ (dreadful, fearful, formidable, horrifying, redoubtable, terrifying), επιβλητικός (authoritative, dignified, imposing), δεινόσ (formidable, troublous). (various references)

Hungarian

félelmetes (awe inspiring, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grim, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous), döbbenetes (awe-inspiring). (various references)

Italian

spaventoso (appaling, appalling, awful, dire, direful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, fearful, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, horrible, nasty, terrific), maestoso (August, augustly, grand, magnificent, majestic, stately, statuesque), imponente (arrestingly, awful, grand, imposing, lordly, massive, stately, towering). (various references)

Korean 

최고 (super, Super-, supreme, top-level). (various references)

Manx

atchimagh (awful, shocking, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Pig Latin

awesomeay.(various references)

Portuguese

terrível (abysmal, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, gruesome, horrible, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), pavoroso (dread, ghastly, gruesome). (various references)

Romanian

straniu (bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Russian 

устрашающий, грозный (bodeful, fearsome, formidable, rampant, redoubtable, redoubted), отлично смотрящийся, испытывающий страх. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fenomenalan (phenomenal). (various references)

Spanish

impresionante (awe inspiring, effective, grandiose, impressive, spectacular). (various references)

Swedish

vördnadsbjudande (awe inspiring, dignified), storslagen (awe inspiring, epic, grand, grandiose, heavy, monumental, munificencent, munificent, olympian), skräckinjagande (awe inspiring, formidable, horrifying), respektingivande (awe inspiring), fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful). (various references)

Thai

เยี่ยม (fabulous), น่าสะพรึงกลัว. (various references)

Turkish

korkunç (appalling, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), korku ifade eden, dehşet verici (appalling, frightening, grisly, gruesome, horror). (various references)

Ukrainian

шанобливий (assentaneous, complacent, deferent, deferential, dutiful, honorific, obeisant, respectful, reverent, reverential), заляканий, жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), благоговійний (reverent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đáng kinh sợ; làm khiếp sợ; làm kinh hoàng. (various references)

ni-gur. (various references)

egeslic. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "awesome": awesomely, awesomeness, awesomenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "awesome": unawesome. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Awesome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aecom, Awelon, awersome, awesom, awesomel, awosome, awsome, awsume, Iwasuge, owesome, qawasim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: meows, wames.

-3 letters: awee, awes, ease, emes, ewes, maes, maws, meow, mesa, mews, moas, mows, owes, owse, same, seam, seem, seme, smew, soma, some, swam, waes, wame, wees, woes.

-4 letters: awe, eme, ems, ewe, mae, mas, maw, mew, moa, mos, mow, oes, oms, ose, owe, sae, saw, sea, see, sew, som, sow, wae.

+2 letters: awesomely, unawesome, wearisome.

+3 letters: saleswomen.

+4 letters: awesomeness, meadowsweet, washerwomen, watermelons, wearisomely, whoremaster.

+5 letters: meadowsweets, metalworkers, servicewoman, warehouseman, warehousemen, whoremasters, witenagemots.