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awesome
/ˈɑsəm/
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What does awesome mean?
adjective
- Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
- Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
noun
- (slang) Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
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noun
- (informal) A person who is awesome.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑsəm/
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This weird conception of those awesome saints I had gained out of the books of the scholastics and church fathers.
Clouds float around their summits, and the mist will often wrap them in gloom and give them a strange and awesome look.
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One nation, the Soviet Union, has conducted the greatest military buildup in the history of man, building arsenals of awesome offensive weapons.
Farther and farther toward the ground they inclined, and still there was no sound save the deep and awesome moaning of the wind.
In part it was an awesome place to him, for here gathered all that he most respected on this earth—wealth, place, and fame.