tremendous

[ trih-men-duhs ]

/ trɪˈmɛn dəs /

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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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1. See huge.

OTHER WORDS FROM tremendous

tre·men·dous·ly, adverbtre·men·dous·ness, nounun·tre·men·dous, adjectiveun·tre·men·dous·ness, noun

Words nearby tremendous

tremble, trembler, trembles, trembling poplar, trembly, tremendous, tremendously, trémie, tremissis, tremolant, tremolite

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How to use tremendous in a sentence

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After having to deal with a tremendous amount of upheaval and rethinking over the last decade, the idea of having to adapt is not a new one for agencies.
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The future is bright with tremendous opportunity, and I want to put all the right pieces into place to make sure that CNN remains strong for many years to come.
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He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.
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He’s a tremendous coach and everybody seems to love to play for him.
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Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
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“When I first met her I felt this tremendous surge of power,” he explained.
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This could create tremendous opportunity for a broad swath of the rustbelt population.
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“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.
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This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.
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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.
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And then several hours at Liszt's, where one succession of concertos, fantasias, and all sorts of tremendous things are played.
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We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
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It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.
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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

tremendous

/ (trɪˈmɛndəs) /

adjective

vast; huge

informal very exciting or unusual

informal (intensifier)a tremendous help

archaic terrible or dreadful

Derived forms of tremendous

tremendously, adverbtremendousness, 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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