adj
Meaning 1
Awe-inspiring; terrific.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tremendous
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/tɹɪˈmɛndəs/
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/tɹəˈmɛndəs/ weak vowel merger
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rhymes with -ɛndəs
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adj
Meaning 2
Notable for its size, power, or excellence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Van Beethoven's ninth symphony is a tremendous piece of music.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There was a tremendous outpouring of support.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree- Walter Lippman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an enormous boulder
- enormous expenses
- tremendous sweeping plains
- a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology
- a plane took off with a tremendous noise
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enormous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a fantastic trip to the Orient
- the film was fantastic!
- a howling success
- a marvelous collection of rare books
- had a rattling conversation about politics
- a tremendous achievement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, wonderful, wondrous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in a frightful hurry
- spent a frightful amount of money
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frightful, terrible, awful
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Adapted borrowing of Latin tremendus (“fearful, terrible”, gerundive of tremō (“to tremble”)) + -ous. Doublet of tremend.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: страхотен (strahoten) — awe-inspiring
- Catalan: tremend — awe-inspiring
- Chinese Mandarin: 令人敬畏/驚歎/驚異的 /令人敬畏/惊叹/惊异的 — awe-inspiring
- Dutch: ontzagwekkend — awe-inspiring
- Finnish: hämmästyttävä — awe-inspiring
- Finnish: mahtava — awe-inspiring
- French: formidable — awe-inspiring
- Italian: formidabile — awe-inspiring
- Italian: tremendo — awe-inspiring
- Portuguese: tremendo — awe-inspiring
- Portuguese: formidável — awe-inspiring
- Romanian: formidabil — awe-inspiring
- Russian: восхити́тельный (vosxitítelʹnyj) — awe-inspiring
- Spanish: tremendo — awe-inspiring
- Spanish: apoteósico — awe-inspiring
- Swedish: oerhörd — awe-inspiring
- Armenian: ահռելի (ahṙeli) — notable for size, power or excellence
- Bulgarian: впечатляващ (vpečatljavašt) — notable for size, power or excellence
- Czech: obdivuhodný — notable for size, power or excellence
- Finnish: valtava — notable for size, power or excellence
- Finnish: mahtava — notable for size, power or excellence
- Finnish: upea — notable for size, power or excellence
- Hebrew: עָצוּם ('atzúm) — notable for size, power or excellence
- Italian: eccellente — notable for size, power or excellence
- Portuguese: tremendo — notable for size, power or excellence
- Portuguese: formidável — notable for size, power or excellence
- Russian: выдаю́щийся (vydajúščijsja) — notable for size, power or excellence
- Spanish: tremendo — notable for size, power or excellence
- Armenian: ահռելի (ahṙeli) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Bulgarian: огромен (ogromen) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Bulgarian: грамаден (gramaden) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Dutch: geweldig — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Finnish: valtava — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Finnish: suunnaton — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Finnish: loistava — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Finnish: mahtava — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Finnish: erinomainen — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- French: énorme — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- German: beträchtlich — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- German: außerordentlich — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Italian: straordinario — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Italian: enorme — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Japanese: 莫大 (bakudai) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Portuguese: tremendo — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Portuguese: enorme — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: огромный громадный (ogromnyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: неисчисляемый (neisčisljajemyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: неизмеряемый (neizmerjajemyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: очень сильный (očenʹ silʹnyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: великий (velikij) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: etc. - extremely large — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: огромный (ogromnyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: высочайший (vysočajšij) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Russian: экстраординарный (ekstraordinarnyj) — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Spanish: tremendo — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Swedish: enorm — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
- Swedish: oerhörd — extremely large (in amount, extent, degree etc.) or great; enormous; extraordinary
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