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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree;
- Example: "an enormous boulder"
- Example: "enormous expenses"
- Example: "tremendous sweeping plains"
- Example: "a tremendous fact in human experience that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman;
- Example: "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
[syn: enormous, tremendous]

2. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;
- Example: "a fantastic trip to the Orient"
- Example: "the film was fantastic!"
- Example: "a howling success"
- Example: "a marvelous collection of rare books"
- Example: "had a rattling conversation about politics"
- Example: "a tremendous achievement"
[syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]

3. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact;
- Example: "in a frightful hurry"
- Example: "spent a frightful amount of money"
[syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be
   trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         A tremendous mischief was a foot.        --Motley.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible;
        awful.
        [1913 Webster] -- Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. --
        Tre*men"dous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tremendous
    adj 1: 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" [syn: enormous,
           tremendous]
    2: 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" [syn: fantastic, grand,
       howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a),
       terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
    3: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a
       frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
       frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]