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awesome

/ˈɑsəm/

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What does awesome mean?

adjective

  1. Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
  2. Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

noun

  1. (slang) Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (informal) A person who is awesome.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɑsəm/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈɔsəm/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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This weird conception of those awesome saints I had gained out of the books of the scholastics and church fathers.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
Clouds float around their summits, and the mist will often wrap them in gloom and give them a strange and awesome look.
Amy SteedmanKnights of Art: Stories of the Italian PaintersProject Gutenberg ebook #529
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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.
United States. PresidentsUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. BushProject Gutenberg ebook #925
Farther and farther toward the ground they inclined, and still there was no sound save the deep and awesome moaning of the wind.
Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesProject Gutenberg ebook #78
In part it was an awesome place to him, for here gathered all that he most respected on this earth—wealth, place, and fame.
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233