awesome

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Word Origin & History

awesome

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.

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Slang Dictionary

awesome definition

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.

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Related Words

awful formidable impressive

impressive offal

Slang

totally awesome

Matching Quote

"For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing."

-unknown author