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Definition of Tremendous
1. Adjective. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree. "A plane took off with a tremendous noise"
2. Adjective. Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers. "A tremendous achievement"
Similar to: Extraordinary
Derivative terms: Grandness, Wonderfulness, Wonder
3. Adjective. Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact. "Spent a frightful amount of money"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Extraordinary
Derivative terms: Terribleness
Definition of Tremendous
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.
Definition of Tremendous
1. Adjective. awe-inspiring; terrific. ¹
2. Adjective. Notable for its size, power, or excellence. ¹
3. Adjective. Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tremendous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tremendous
Literary usage of Tremendous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Averardo Serristori and Alessandri in particular made a tremendous stir about
it, but Federigo managed to protect matters until the magistracy went out of ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"This was happily quelled by his firm and decisive measures, and he was shortly
afterwards recalled to the Cape to take command of the tremendous, ..."
3. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"... and, like the gates of Paradise to our first parents when looking back from
afar, it is still (in the tremendous line of Milton)— ' With dreadful faces ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... to important commands, and felt sure of the effect ot his tremendous military
fame upon the general military feeling of the country. ..."
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