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awesome - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'awesome' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Awesome [ a.]
- Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
- Expressive of awe or terror.

Meaning of 'awesome' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . awesome [ s]
Meaning (1):
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
Example in sentence:
  • New York is an amazing city;
  • the awesome complexity of the universe;
  • the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight;
  • this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath;
  • Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent