tremendous

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
    extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers

Word Origin

tremendous (adj.)
1630s, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from Latin tremendus "fearful, to be dreaded, terrible," literally "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble (v.)). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terrible, dreadful, awful, etc. Related: Tremendously.

Synonym

Example

1. The power of a sentence is tremendous .
2. There has been a tremendous slowdown everywhere else , however .
3. This habit , developed early , can help a person build tremendous wealth .
4. House was strange and provocative and tremendous art .
5. All this activity comes at tremendous cost .

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