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trɪˈmɛn dəstremen·dous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enormous, tremendousadjective

    extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree

    "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"

  2. fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrousadjective

    extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers

    "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

  3. frightful, terrible, awful, tremendousadjective

    extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

    "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"

Wiktionary

  1. tremendousadjective

    awe-inspiring; terrific.

  2. tremendousadjective

    Notable for its size, power, or excellence.

    Van Beethoven's ninth symphony is a tremendous piece of music.

  3. tremendousadjective

    Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great

    There was a tremendous outpouring of support.

  4. Etymology: From tremendus, gerund form of tremo, from τρέμω

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tremendousadjective

    Dreadful; horrible; astonishingly terrible.

    Etymology: tremendus, Latin.

    There stands an altar where the priest celebrates some mysteries sacred and tremendous. Tatler, №. 57.

    In that portal shou’d the chief appear,
    Each hand tremendous with a brazen spear. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

Wikipedia

  1. tremendous

    HMS Tremendous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the lines of HMS Ganges by William Barnard's yard at Deptford Green, and launched on 30 October 1784.

ChatGPT

  1. tremendous

    Tremendous typically refers to something that is extremely large in quantity, scale, degree, level, or intensity. It can also mean something that is extremely good or impressive. So, it is a term that shows an extreme point of quantity or quality.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tremendousadjective

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tremendous

    trē-men′dus, adj. such as astonishes or terrifies by its force or greatness: dreadful.—adv. Tremen′dously.—n. Tremen′dousness.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tremendous' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1846

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tremendous' in Adjectives Frequency: #603

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tremendous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tremendous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of tremendous in a Sentence

  1. Asheesh Saksena:

    Home health is an area that will see tremendous growth over time, it will require more and more broadband capability.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Every death is a horror -- but if you look at a real catastrophe, like Hurricane Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering -- nobody has ever seen anything like this, everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in Puerto Rico.

  3. Christy Hudson:

    We are watching our kids suffer tremendous academic regressions as well as social, emotional and behavioral problems.

  4. James Austin Johnsons Donald Trump:

    I just wanted to congratulate Glenn Youngkin and mostly myself on a tremendous victory in Virginia. Glad we did it together.

  5. Takeaway CEO Jitse Groen:

    This offer is a full offer, and on top of that we believe it provides Just Eat shareholders with tremendous upside, the all-share combination establishes the largest global platform in online food delivery outside China and allows shareholders of both Just Eat and Takeaway.com to benefit from significant long-term value creation.

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