- Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish
or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful;
as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
Meaning of 'tremendous' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . tremendous
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Meaning (1): - extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Example in sentence:
a fantastic trip to the Orient;
a howling success;
a marvelous collection of rare books;
a tremendous achievement;
had a rattling conversation about politics;
the film was fantastic!
Meaning (2): - extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
Example in sentence:
a plane took off with a tremendous noise;
a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology;
an enormous boulder;
enormous expenses;
tremendous sweeping plains
Meaning (3): - extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact