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Awesome   /ˈɑsəm/  /ˈɔsəm/   Listen
Awesome

adjective
1.
Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.  Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing.  "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" , "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"






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"Awesome" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough," said Lockhart, looking about approvingly at the prim horsehair furniture that gave an awesome ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... achieve success by practising deception. They might appear as beautiful girls or handsome men and seize unsuspecting victims in deathly embrace or leave them demented and full of grief, or come as birds and suddenly assume awesome shapes. ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... awesome sight," Mollie agreed, as she and Amy spread the cloth. "I wonder," she added as a sudden thought struck her, "if the boys have had ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope

... mistake; he had, as the plain-spoken East Burgen doctor put it, made an ass of himself on the matter of a childish illness, thereby imperilling Dora's half-fledged little life. Mrs. Glynde had then, like a diminutive tigress, stood up boldly before her awesome lord and master, saying such things to him that the remembrance of them made her catch her breath even now. From that time forth the Rector was allowed to hold forth on symptoms to his heart's content, to take down from his library ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman

... ever coming back, Miss Betty?" asked Hannibal rather fearfully, smitten with the awesome sense of impermanence ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester


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