awesome
- causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear: an awesome sight.
- exhibiting or marked by awe; showing reverence, admiration, or fear.
- Slang. very impressive: That new white convertible is totally awesome.
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Contemporary Examples of awesomely
Most of them awesomely feature some sort of musical performance.
Or is he a captive of his own limitations, a smart, seasoned, and awesomely uninspiring politician?
They are, awesomely, still together, both on DVD and nearly every night, for hours at a time.
Historical Examples of awesomely
Awesomely it sounded at the touch of the god, while he sang sweetly to its note.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHomer and Hesiod
In the all too near distance, awesomely vast and ruddy columns of fire rose and fell with monotonous regularity.
Vulcan's WorkshopHarl Vincent
"We will all have to die too," she said, awesomely to herself, her eyes traveling about the circle of faces.
Saturday's ChildKathleen Norris
The acid—if that was what the red stuff was—was awesomely powerful, at least with inorganic substances.
The Raid on the TermitesPaul Ernst
A breeze fluttered sash ends and tugged at cloaks, otherwise the assembly was motionless and awesomely quiet.
Plague ShipAndre Norton
awesome
- inspiring or displaying awe
- slang excellent or outstanding