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tremendous [ trih-men -duh s ] SHOW IPA
/ trɪˈmɛn dəs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective
extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
extraordinary in excellence: a tremendous movie.
dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.
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Origin of tremendous First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin tremendus “dreadful, to be shaken by,” equivalent to trem(ere) “to shake, quake” + -endus gerund suffix
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OTHER WORDS FROM tremendous tre·men·dous·ly, adverb tre·men·dous·ness, noun un·tre·men·dous, adjective un·tre·men·dous·ness, noun
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He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.
He’s a tremendous coach and everybody seems to love to play for him.
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
“When I first met her I felt this tremendous surge of power,” he explained.
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“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.
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Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
And then several hours at Liszt's, where one succession of concertos, fantasias, and all sorts of tremendous things are played.
We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.
Obviously a tremendous question arises here as to how a story should be found in Genesis xiv.
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British Dictionary definitions for tremendous
adjective
vast; huge
informal very exciting or unusual
informal (intensifier) a tremendous help
archaic terrible or dreadful
Derived forms of tremendous tremendously , adverb tremendousness , noun Word Origin for tremendous C17: from Latin tremendus terrible, literally: that is to be trembled at, from tremere to quake
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