tremendous

tremendous
    adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or
           power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous
           expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous
           fact in human experience; that a whole civilization
           should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a
           plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: {enormous},
           {tremendous}]
    2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
       intensifiers; "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" [syn: {fantastic}, {grand},
       {howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {marvellous}, {rattling(a)},
       {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}, {wondrous}]
    3: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a
       frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
       {frightful}, {terrible}, {awful}, {tremendous}]
    

Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be
   trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See {Tremble}.]
   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.
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         A tremendous mischief was a foot.        --Motley.
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   Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible;
        awful.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Tre*men"dous*ly}, adv. --
        {Tre*men"dous*ness}, n.
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104 Moby Thesaurus words for "tremendous":
      Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
      Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, appalling, astounding,
      astronomic, astronomical, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless,
      bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, dire, direful, divine, dread,
      dreaded, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, exquisite,
      extensive, fantastic, fell, flabbergasting, formidable, frightful,
      galactic, ghastly, ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic,
      gilt-edged, glorious, golden, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavenly,
      heroic, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
      horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo,
      king-size, large, macabre, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous,
      massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, morbid,
      mortal, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound,
      redoubtable, schrecklich, sensational, shocking, sizable, spacious,
      splendid, splendiferous, sterling, stupendous, super, superb,
      supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, terrible, terrific,
      titanic, towering, vast, voluminous, weighty, wonderful