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Tremendous   /trəmˈɛndəs/  /trɪmˈɛndəs/   Listen
Tremendous

adjective
1.
Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree.  Synonym: enormous.  "Enormous expenses" , "Tremendous sweeping plains" , "A tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology" , "A plane took off with a tremendous noise"
2.
Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers.  Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous.  "The film was fantastic!" , "A howling success" , "A marvelous collection of rare books" , "Had a rattling conversation about politics" , "A tremendous achievement"
3.
Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact.  Synonyms: awful, frightful, terrible.  "Spent a frightful amount of money"






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"Tremendous" Quotes from Famous Books



... to resume the interrupted thread of his thoughts. He knew that he had been dealing with some very tremendous and urgent problem when Eleanor had appeared. Then he remembered that Eleanor at the time of her approach had seemed to be a solution rather than an interruption. Well, she had her own life. She was ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... rested, without waiting for full day Howard was forced to start them on and to make a wide swerve out of his intended direction to come soon to feed and water. Otherwise the drive would become a tremendous misfortune and loss. His cattle would lose weight rapidly under privation; they would when delivered in San Juan only vaguely resemble the choice herd he had promised; scrawny and jaded, under weight and wretched, their price would drop from the top to the bottom of the scale. He would ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

... uprights, and simultaneously, as it now seems to me, a voice shouted my name; but the sound and something else came together—something bringing with it a sting and the sounds of a rampant engine. I saw a myriad of flashing lights, heard a tremendous crash, ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch

... the reply, "but it seems that way. Famines have a tremendous effect on the world's history. The great French Revolution, one of the greatest events in modern history, was brought to a head by a famine. This was the 'Three Year ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

... very difficult. If the player has a long drive, he can, if he has a good second, land on the green in two; but in order to do so he has to carry a very difficult piece of country, which, if he gets into it, is generally fatal. Bob's drive was short, and it seemed impossible for him to carry the tremendous hazard with his second shot. Trevanion, on the other hand, was in an easy position. When he saw Bob's short ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking


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