Tremendous

Definition: Tremendous

Tremendous

Adjective

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".

2. Extraordinarily good; 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tremendous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, adjective. [Latin expression tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, from tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]. (references)

Synonyms: Tremendous

Fear

Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian.

Pain

Shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.

Crosswords: Tremendous

Those fold-outs take a tremendous amount of space up, and I need space (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Physically, it's not a very demanding job. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is, uh, a tremendous sense of isolation (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

I am sporting a tremendous woody (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Life Is Tremendous (reference)

• The Mind of Mankind: Human Imagination-The Source of Mankind's Tremendous Power. (reference)

• The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (reference)

• The Tremendous Power of Prayer: A Collection of Quotes and Inspirational Thoughts to Inspire Your Prayer Life (reference)

• The Tremendous Tree Book (Reading Rainbow Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tremendous Efforts (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Histopathology of lymph node shows tremendous numbers of acid-fast bacilli within plump histiocytes. Credit: CDC.

A view of the power block as the net is coming on board. The tremendous power of the winches hauling the net through the powerblock rips apart fish entangled in the net. Credit: Fisheries.

What every husband knows. Think of the tremendous age in which we are living! Think of ... Credit: Library of Congress.

On the brink of a tremendous precipice, Grand View Trail, Grand Canyon, Ariz., U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ringling Bros. tremendous 1200 character spectacle Joan of Arc--An inspiring, vivid picture ... the magnificent coronation of Charles VII. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tremendous barn, sixty by one hundred feet, and windmill on Roy Merriot farm of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendous piles of spikes will be sorted out according to size and put away in kegs for salvage purposes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Liebler and Co's tremendous production of Monte Cristo with Mr. James O'Neill as Edmond Dantes, a character he has made world famous. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Monster gathered its legs together, and in one tremendous bound vanished into the sky.

"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," he muttered to himself.

They fell into the tremendous error of mistaking the obedience of the soldier for the acquiescence of the nation

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Health

The use of IVIG has undergone tremendous growth in the past several years. (references)

Since the discovery of the Fragile X gene in 1991, there has been tremendous progress in the understanding of this disorder. (references)

This behavior may persist over time and prove very difficult to change, posing a tremendous challenge to those who must live with, treat, and teach these individuals. (references)

Business

Harvesting methods and equipment leave tremendous amounts of waste. (references)

This trend has had a tremendous impact on n the construction sector. (references)

The needs are tremendous, which is obvious to even casual observers. (references)

Children

Zimbabwe

Deaths from HIV/AIDS have created hundreds of thousands of orphans, a number expected to rise to 1 million by 2005. This rapidly growing problem is expected to put a tremendous strain on both formal and traditional social systems. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hungary

The increase in asylum caseload resulting from a change in the law in 1998 and from events in Kosovo and the resulting NATO action in 1999 placed a tremendous strain on the OIN's resources, leading to a large number of pending cases and an increased processing time per application. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Moscow Oblast has tremendous industrial potential. (references)

Political Economy

Latvia

Latvia has made tremendous progress toward its goal of EU accession. (references)

Moldova

The business-to-government dialogue had a tremendous boost under previous governments. (references)

MOROCCO

King Mohammed's extensive travel throughout the country has earned him tremendous respect among his people. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Over the last few years, there has been tremendous credit expansion by the SOCBs (20-30% increase) in order to pump up the economy. (references)

Burma

Despite sometimes onerous trade regulations, in actuality there is a tremendous amount of smuggling in and out of Burma, particularly across the long and often remote borders. (references)

Germany

Packaging Disposal: With the tremendous growth of waste and increasing disposal problems, Germany has established legislation which contains certain rules for the disposal of packaging materials. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "tremendous": he is a tremendous eater. Additional references.

Albanian

i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic), i pamasë (enormous, immense, infinite, non-dimensional), i llahtarshëm (dire, horrific, monstrous, terrifying), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جبار (colossal, giant, huge, powerful, strong man, superhuman, titanic), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, unearthly), страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, scary, terrible, terrific, wicked), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Chinese 

巨大 (enormous, gigantic, huge, immense, very large). (various references)

Czech

strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hairy, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrible, horrific, terrible), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, vast, vasty, whacking), obrovský (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, howling, huge, immense, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grim, hateful, hellish, horrible, mortal, terrible, terrific), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, splendid, stupendous, terrific, wonderful). (various references)

Farsi 

فاحش (Egregious, Heavy), مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Hideous, Horrendous, Horrible, Horrid, Macabre, Terrific, Ugsome), ترسناک (Dire, Ghastly, Grim, Hideous, Horrid, Lurid, Macabre, Nightmarish, Redoubtable, Terrible, Terrific, Ugsome), عجیب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Marvelous, Rummy, Strange, Stupendous, Unco, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliarity), عظیم (August, Enormous, Glorious, Great, Massive, Terrific, Vast, Whopper), شگرف (Excellent, Fine, Prodigious, Wondrous). (various references)

Finnish

valtava (enormous, huge, immense). (various references)

French

terrible, prodigieux, phénoménal, immense, formidable, épouvantable, épatant, énorme. (various references)

German

fürchterlich (awful, dreadful, excruciating, fearsome, horrible, horribly, horrid, horridly, horrifying, indescribable, miserable, miserably, monstrously, outrageously, racking, redoubtable, redoubtably, terrible, terribly, terrifying). (various references)

Greek 

καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, astounding, prodigious, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous), τρομακτικόσ (alarming, appalling, scary, terrific), τρομαχτικόσ (frightening, hair raising, scary). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, immense, massive, mighty, strength, thundering, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), כביר (enormous, grand, huge, immense, mighty, stupendous, terrific, thundering). (various references)

Hungarian

borzasztó (astounding, awful, dreadful, fearsome, god-awful, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, terrible, terrific). (various references)

Indonesian

hebat sekali. (various references)

Italian

terribile (abysmal, appaling, appalling, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, gruesome, horrible, splitting, terrible, terrific), straordinario (enormous, extra, extraordinary, extraordinary thing, formidable, immense, overtime, overwork, special, terrific, unique), poderoso (enormous, mighty, powerful, strong, towering), immane (appaling, appalling, enormous), grandioso (excellent, grand, grandiose, great, magnificent, stately, wonderful), formidabile (crack, formidable, redoubtable, redoubted, smashing, terrible, wonderful), enorme (awful, enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, mammoth, monster, swingeing, walloping, whopping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�� しい (excessive, extreme, heavy damage, intense, serious, severe, terrible). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すさまじい (absurd, amazing, awful, dreadful, fierce, terrible, terrific), ぜつ� い (a notice, immense), ばくはつてき (explosive), はなは� しい (excessive, extreme, heavy, intense, serious, severe, terrible), とっぴょうしもない (astounding, crazy, exorbitant). (various references)

Korean 

거창한. (various references)

Manx

atchimagh (awesome, awful, shocking, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

emendoustray.(various references)

Portuguese

tremendo (frightful, parlous, tearing, terrible, terrific), terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, gruesome, horrible, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, ungodly), medonho (awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, grisly, hideous, horrible, infernal, terrible), formidável (clinking, formidable, redoubtable, redoubted, ripping, scrumptious, slashing, sledge-hammer, smashing, snorting, spanking, stupendous, super, terrific), extraordinário (amazing, exquisite, extra, extraordinary, formidable, king-size, miraculous, particular, phenomenal, prodigious, rare, remarkable, sensational, shining, singular, special, sublime, surpassing, transcendent, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Romanian

teribil (awful, awfully, damnably, direful, dreadful, exceedingly, excruciating, extraordinary, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, like old boot, terrible, terribly, terrific), zguduitor (awful, shaking, staggering, terrible, thrilling), straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, with a vengeance), nemaipomenit (abject, bright, bully, egregious, lovely, lumme, magnificent, nut, priceless, sad, unbelievable, unheard of, unparalleled, unprecedented), nãprasnic (amazing, awful, impetuous, sudden, suddenly, terrible, unexpected, violent), impunãtor (commanding, dignified, grandiose, imposing, portly, spectacular, stately), imens (boundless, colossal, deep, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, mountain, ocean-wide, overwhelming, profound, thumping, vast), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), formidabil (crack, formidable, terrible, well), fantastic (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tall, whimsical), extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, vast, whopping), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, horrid, howling, terrible, terrific, unearthly), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific). (various references)

Russian 

огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, huge, immense, knock out, massive, monster, prodigious, terrific, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, vast, vasty, whopping). (various references)

Spanish

tremendo (awful, deuced, fearful, gross, terrific, thundering, whopping). (various references)

Swedish

fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful). (various references)

Turkish

muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, whacking), koskocaman (enormous, huge, very big, whacking, whaling), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), heybetli (ample, baronial, dreadfull, formidable, grandiose, imposing, majestic, monumental, redoubtable, solemn, stately), çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, hyper-, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen 

mдhnet (enormous, huge). (various references)

Ukrainian

величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, ungodly, wretched). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kinh khủng (desperate, direful, formidable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific), khủng khiếp (blood-curdling, frightful, horrendous, horrific, lurid, macabre, terrific), ghê gớm (burning, desperate, fearful, formidable, gruesome, mortally, obscene, plaguy, precious, preciously, terrible, thundering, woefully). (various references)

tremendus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tremendous": tremendously, tremendousness, tremendousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tremendous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: remendous, tramendous, tremandous, tremedous, tremendeous, tremendouse, tremendum, tremendus, tremndous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deuterons, endosteum, entoderms, modernest, remounted, rousement, udometers, undermost.

-2 letters: demetons, demounts, demurest, dentures, deuteron, entoderm, eudemons, mentored, modernes, modester, mordents, mounters, mudstone, muenster, mustered, remounts, roundest, routemen, sederunt, tonsured, udometer, underset, unrested, unsorted.

-3 letters: dements, demeton, demotes, demount, denotes, denture, detours, dourest, dustmen, emerods, emoters, endmost, endorse, endures, enduros, ensured, erodent, estrone, eudemon.

+1 letter: documenters.

+2 letters: tremendously.

+3 letters: adventuresome, documentaries, overdocuments.

+4 letters: counterdemands, discouragement, overadjustment, tremendousness.

+5 letters: countermelodies, deuteranomalies, deuteranomalous, discouragements, echinodermatous, overadjustments, semidocumentary, undemonstrative, underestimation.