# awesome

Pronunciation: say "AW-suhm" US /ˈɔ.səm/, UK /ˈɔː.səm/

## Adjective

1. Extremely good, exciting, or remarkable. *(colloquial, Australia, Canada, US)*
   - Simple: Very good, exciting, or impressive.
   - _The band's final song was absolutely awesome._
   - _She landed an awesome internship at a tech company._
2. Inspiring awe or terror; filling an onlooker with wonder or excitement.
   - Simple: Causing strong feelings of wonder, fear, or respect.
   - _The cathedral's vast interior was genuinely awesome to behold._
   - _The volcano's eruption was an awesome and terrifying sight._

## Noun

3. Short for awesomeness: the quality of being really great or amazing. *(slang)* — Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
   - Simple: Short for awesomeness: being really great or amazing.
   - _The whole show had a level of awesome nobody could match._
   - _His skateboard tricks brought pure awesome to the whole afternoon._

## Origin

Formed from awe + -some, comparable to the earlier awful and Middle English eiful ("terrible"), from Old English eġeful ("fearful; inspiring awe"). Its oldest meaning was "full of awe," then "something that inspires awe," and it later became a common colloquial term for anything superb.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/awesome (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).