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tremendous

[ trih-men-duhs ]

adjective

  1. extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity:

    a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.

  2. extraordinary in excellence:

    a tremendous movie.

  3. dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.


tremendous

/ trɪˈmɛndəs /

adjective

  1. vast; huge
  2. informal.
    very exciting or unusual
  3. informal.
    (intensifier)

    a tremendous help

  4. archaic.
    terrible or dreadful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • treˈmendousness, noun
  • treˈmendously, adverb
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Other Words From

  • tre·men·dous·ly adverb
  • tre·men·dous·ness noun
  • un·tre·men·dous adjective
  • un·tre·men·dous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tremendous1

First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin tremendus “dreadful, to be shaken by,” equivalent to trem(ere) “to shake, quake” + -endus gerund suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tremendous1

C17: from Latin tremendus terrible, literally: that is to be trembled at, from tremere to quake
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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

If you want a model for how to manage a large business amid the pandemic, how to make solid yet adaptable judgments in the face of tremendous uncertainty, well, there it is.

After having to deal with a tremendous amount of upheaval and rethinking over the last decade, the idea of having to adapt is not a new one for agencies.

The future is bright with tremendous opportunity, and I want to put all the right pieces into place to make sure that CNN remains strong for many years to come.

He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.

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He’s a tremendous coach and everybody seems to love to play for him.

Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

“When I first met her I felt this tremendous surge of power,” he explained.

This could create tremendous opportunity for a broad swath of the rustbelt population.

“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.

This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.

Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

And then several hours at Liszt's, where one succession of concertos, fantasias, and all sorts of tremendous things are played.

We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.

It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.

Obviously a tremendous question arises here as to how a story should be found in Genesis xiv.

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