AWESOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awesome mean? 

• AWESOME (adjective)
  The adjective AWESOME has 1 sense:

1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

  Familiarity information: AWESOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWESOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

Synonyms:

amazing; awe-inspiring; awesome; awful; awing

Context example:

Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

 Context examples 

It must be an awesome thing to have so much blood upon one's soul.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One might have thought already that God’s curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant air.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to that awesome planetary support, we have a sweet, encouraging solar eclipse (a new moon) in Capricorn at four degrees on December 25.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The gulf yawned between her and him at the awesome thought of a person who did not have to work for a living.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was an awesome thing to sleep in that ill-fated camp; and yet it was even more unnerving to do so in the jungle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have said truly that it is an awesome thing to have such rough work upon one's soul.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)