Definitions

awesome

[aw-suhm] / ˈɔ səm /

ADJECTIVE

inspiring great admiration, reverence, or fearful wonder

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amazing astonishing astounding awe-inspiring breathtaking imposing inspiring magnificent majestic miraculous spectacular staggering stunning stupefying sublime wonderful wondrous

STRONG

affecting arresting august exalted formidable grand moving overwhelming shocking solemn striking

WEAK

daunting dreadful fearsome intimidating transcendent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

mundane normal uninspiring

ADJECTIVE

excellent or outstanding

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amazing astonishing cool excellent exceptional fabulous great impressive intense marvelous mind-blowing outstanding remarkable terrific wonderful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad boring ordinary trivial ugly unimportant unimpressive

Example Sentences

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“Can you imagine? Poor guy. Now she’s married to that alligator guy? He’s awesome.”

From Los Angeles Times

Why couldn’t he show the visitors how awesome polar bears are and send them home fired up about saving them?

From Literature

“Nothing ‘awesome’ about fans/fake media doing stuff like that,” Long wrote in an X post that has since been deleted.

From Los Angeles Times

Thanks to the magic of the internet, I was able to keep listening to her awesome show once I’d returned back home.

From Salon

At Mrs. Fischer’s house, Cora really turns on the charm and gets an awesome interview about the incident.

From Literature