Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
AWESOME
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
Etymology
Adjective
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.
Usage notes
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.
Synonyms
• (causing awe or terror): see awesome or wonderful
• (excellent): see excellent
Antonyms
• aweless
Noun
awesome (uncountable)
(slang) Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
Synonyms
• awesome sauce (slang)
Antonyms
• 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
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