an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
c.1600, "profoundly reverential," from awe + -some. Meaning "inspiring awe" is from 1670s; weakened colloquial sense of "impressive, very good" is recorded by 1961 and was in vogue from after c.1980.
exclam. Great!; Excellent! (Usually Awesome! Standard English, but used often in slang.) : You own that gorgeous hog? Awesome!
mod. impressive. : That thing is so awesome!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Those genies consist of awesome mathematical engines and programming, but you never need to be aware of that.
This role reversal is a case study in the awesome power of the partisan mindset.
See the awesome destructive power of landslides.
And yet, there is a strange majesty to it and an awesome ambition.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention, and reminding us what an awesome newspaper we have the pleasure to enjoy.
The other grandparents are awesome though, and in constant contact despite also being far away.
Travel around the world to check out some awesome avalanches.
At five feet long, with a five-foot wing span, this has to be the most awesome mailbox on the block.
Not that much-except that they are all awesome, they were all innovative, and they were all endlessly copied.