tremendous
adjective
extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity.
tremendousness
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a word derived from
tremendous.
Example Sentences
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A pyramid may thrill us by its tremendousness; we may dream how once the legions of Mark Antony encamped below it, how the eagles of Napoleon went tossing past.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
Nor is the preeminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
The strangeness and tremendousness of what was happening came over me very strongly whilst, in a large chamber with barred loopholes, I was throwing off the rags in which I had entered this house.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
Whatever the thing could have been, my impression is of tremendousness, or of bulk many times that of all meteorites in all museums combined: also of relative slowness, or of long warning of approach.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
A good instance of the way in which the tremendousness of a catastrophe may banish fear was given me by a Stanford student.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
