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
18 April 2024
(adjective) impelling to action; “it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function”- Arthur Pap; “motive pleas”; “motivating arguments”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
