Awesome

awesome
    adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
           amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring
           sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this
           sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some
           hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing
           majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: {amazing},
           {awe-inspiring}, {awesome}, {awful}, {awing}]
    

Awesome \Awe"some\, a.
   1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
      --Wright.
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   2. Expressive of awe or terror.
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            An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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143 Moby Thesaurus words for "awesome":
      Gargantuan, affecting, aggrandized, alarming, amazing,
      amplitudinous, apotheosized, appalling, astonishing, astounding,
      astronomical, august, awe-inspiring, awful, awing, beatified, big,
      bizarre, boundless, breathtaking, bulky, canonized, colossal,
      cosmic, daunting, deified, dire, direful, divine, dread, dreaded,
      dreadful, eerie, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enormous, enshrined,
      enthroned, estimable, exalted, excellent, extensive, fearful,
      fearsome, fell, formidable, frightening, galactic, ghastly,
      ghoulish, gigantic, glorified, grand, great, grim, grisly,
      gruesome, heavenly, held in awe, hideous, high, high and mighty,
      holy, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
      horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, immortal, immortalized,
      imposing, incredible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible,
      infinite, inviolable, inviolate, king-size, large, lofty, macabre,
      magnified, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous,
      monumental, morbid, mountainous, moving, mysterious, numinous,
      outsize, overgrown, overwhelming, prodigious, redoubtable,
      religious, reverend, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, sanctified,
      schrecklich, shocking, shrined, sizable, spacious, spiritual,
      stirring, stunning, stupefying, stupendous, sublime, supereminent,
      terrible, terrific, terrifying, throned, time-honored, titanic,
      tremendous, unbelievable, uncanny, unspeakable, untouchable,
      unutterable, vast, venerable, voluminous, weighty, weird,
      wonderful, wondrous, worshipful