Thesaurus: tremendous

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
3. adj. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
4. adj. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
5. 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. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley. Syn. -- Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. -- Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. -- Tre*men"dous*ness, n.
6. Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish orterrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as,a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley.
7. j:100 s extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman s extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers s extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact