amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing
(adjective) 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® 3.1
awesome (comparative more awesome or awesomer, superlative most awesome or awesomest)
(dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]
(colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common slang expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.
The comparative and superlative forms awesomer and awesomest are generally regarded as nonstandard.
• (causing awe or terror): see awesome or wonderful
• (excellent): see excellent
• aweless
awesome (uncountable)
(slang) Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
• awesome sauce (slang)
• fail (slang), shit (slang), weaksauce (slang)
Source: Wiktionary
Awe"some, a.
1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. Wright.
2. Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
