tremendous
- 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.
Origin of tremendous
Synonyms for tremendous
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for tremendous
fantastic, colossal, awesome, marvelous, fabulous, formidable, dreadful, incredible, terrific, immense, amazing, wonderful, exceptional, astounding, great, extraordinary, excellent, prodigious, vast, enormousExamples from the Web for tremendous
Contemporary Examples of tremendous
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.
“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights EraGary May
November 15, 2014
This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.
The Good Lie was filmed at a time of tremendous promise for South Sudan.
Historical Examples of tremendous
One cannot stand in this presence and be unmindful of the tremendous responsibility.
The picture, with all its tremendous coloring, was finished.
The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")Nathaniel Hawthorne
To the electors of Frome he spoke of the tremendous responsibility of the Ministers.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
Undoubtedly he was possessed of a tremendous regard for the girl Allis.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
We had a tremendous passage home--one of the worst I ever experienced at sea.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
tremendous
- vast; huge
- informal very exciting or unusual
- informal (intensifier)a tremendous help
- archaic terrible or dreadful
Word Origin for tremendous
Word Origin and History for tremendous
1630s, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from Latin tremendus "fearful, terrible," literally "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terribly, awfully, etc.