Hypertext Webster Gateway: "awesome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Awesome \Awe"some\, a.
1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
--Wright.
2. Expressive of awe or terror.
An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
awesome
adj : 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}, {awful}, {awing}]
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