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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awesome \Awe"some\, a.
   1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
      --Wright.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Expressive of awe or terror.
      [1913 Webster]

            An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

awesome
    adj 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" [syn: amazing,
           awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]