awesome

/'ɔ:səm/

Thân thiện

The view of the Grand Canyon from the rim is truly awesome.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Inspiring or filled with awe: Causing a feeling of overwhelming admiration, reverence, or fear, often due to grandeur, power, or vastness.
   • Extremely impressive or excellent: (Informal, especially in modern usage) Used to describe something that is extraordinarily good, remarkable, or outstanding.

Usage

• The primary meaning relates to something that evokes a profound emotional response of wonder mixed with fear or respect, typically due to its scale, power, or majesty.
• In contemporary informal usage, it is commonly used as a general term of high praise, meaning "extremely good" or "amazing."

Examples

• Inspiring awe:
  • The awesome power of the volcano was terrifying.
  • We stood in silence before the awesome beauty of the mountain range.
• Informal excellence:
  • You got the job? That's awesome!
  • We had an awesome time at the concert last night.

Advanced Usage

• "awe-inspiring": A more formal synonym emphasizing the capacity to cause awe.
  • The cathedral's architecture is truly awe-inspiring.
• Used as an intensifier: In very informal contexts, it can modify other adjectives.
  • That was an awesome big cake!

Variants and Related Words

• Awe (noun): A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
  • They gazed at the stars with a sense of awe.
• Awesomely (adverb): In an awesome manner.
  • The team played awesomely and won the championship.
• Awesomeness (noun): The quality of being awesome.
  • The awesomeness of the natural wonder left us speechless.

Synonyms

• Awe-inspiring: Filling with awe.
• Breathtaking: Astonishingly beautiful or excellent.
• Formidable: Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively powerful or capable.
• Majestic: Having or showing impressive beauty or dignity.
• Terrific: (Informal) Extremely good; excellent.

Antonyms

• Unimpressive: Failing to impress; mediocre.
• Ordinary: With no special or distinctive features; normal.
• Contemptible: Deserving contempt; despicable.

Idioms and Common Phrases

• "Stand in awe of": To admire someone or something greatly and respectfully, often with a hint of fear.
  • Many young musicians stand in awe of the maestro's talent.
• "In awe": Feeling or showing awe.
  • The audience watched the performance in complete awe.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
   • New York is an amazing city
   • the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight
   • the awesome complexity of the universe
   • this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath- Melville
   • Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent

Từ đồng nghĩa

• amazing
• awe-inspiring
• awful
• awing