tremendous
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,773 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 48,213 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree also: enormous an enormous boulderenormous expenses
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers also: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling a fantastic trip to the Orientthe film was fantastic!
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact also: frightful, terrible, awful in a frightful hurryspent a frightful amount of money
tremendous in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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That diorama would have been a tremendous success but for one thing.
Strange stories of the Civil War · Robert Shackleton · Chapter 1
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Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.
Selected Poems · Rupert Brooke · Chapter 1
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His tremendous legs are his only weapons, and his kick is almost, if not quite, equal to that of a horse.
Six Months at the Cape · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1
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There was a tremendous row, but the pugilists were hurried off to their respective dressing-rooms, and the crowd slowly left the building.
Montezuma's Castle, and Other Weird Tales · Charles B. (Charles Barney) Cory · Chapter 1
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There was no answer, nor movement, but at the sound of his voice, a tremendous uproar burst forth again in the forest.
Harrington: A Story of True Love · William Douglas O'Connor · Chapter 1