tremendous

[trih-men-duhs] / trɪˈmɛn dəs /

ADJECTIVE

huge, overwhelming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amazing astounding awesome colossal dreadful enormous excellent exceptional extraordinary fabulous fantastic formidable great immense incredible marvelous massive monumental prodigious terrible terrific vast wonderful

WEAK

appalling awful cracking deafening fearful frightful gargantuan gigantic great big humongous jumbo large mammoth mondo monstrous stupendous super titanic towering whale whopper whopping

Antonyms

STRONGEST

believable common commonplace conventional customary expected familiar inferior insignificant little miniature minute normal ordinary plain pleasant poor powerless small teeny tiny trivial unamazing unimportant unnoteworthy usual weak wonderful

WEAK

underwhelming

Example Sentences

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Recently, I’m also enjoying meals built not from elaborate technique, but from ingredients that arrive already carrying a tremendous amount of flavor.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

The rally began shortly after a double-bottom breakout above the $158.05 pivot on Jan. 5, which sparked a move of more than 5% on tremendous volume.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Costco built a tremendous competitive advantage by capping its profit margins and sharing scale benefits with customers in the form of lower prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

She described the "outpouring of support" she has received as "tremendous".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

He was tremendous, well over two hundred pounds, with scars on his hands and steel toe-clips on his motorcycle boots.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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