tremendous

tremendous
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. stupendous, colossal, gigantic, huge; extraordinary. See size.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. huge, enormous, great, colossal; see large 1 , enormous .
See Synonym Study at enormous .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. enormous huge, gigantic, colossal, monumental, massive, titanic, whopping, great, grand, monstrous, gargantuan.
2. wonderful great, extraordinary, fantastic, fabulous, *super, excellent, marvelous, *out of this world.
3. terrifying horrifying, dreadful, unnerving, frightening, scary, *bloodcurdling, shocking, horrendous, monstrous.
ANT.: 1. tiny, miniscule, puny, microscopic, insignificant. 2. terrible, awful, rotten. 3. comforting, reassuring
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, vast. Informal: walloping. Slang: whopping. See BIG. 2. Informal. Particularly excellent: divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, marvelous, sensational, splendid, superb, terrific, wonderful. Informal: dandy, dreamy, great, ripping, super, swell. Slang: cool, groovy, hot, keen1, neat, nifty. Idiom: out of this world. See GOOD. 3. Causing or able to cause fear: appalling, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, redoubtable, scary, terrible. See FEAR.

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