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/tɹəmˈɛndəs/
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[ US /tɹəˈmɛndəs, tɹɪˈmɛndəs/ ]
[ US /tɹəˈmɛndəs, tɹɪˈmɛndəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
had a rattling conversation about politics
the film was fantastic!
a tremendous achievement
a marvelous collection of rare books
a howling success
a fantastic trip to the Orient -
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
spent a frightful amount of money
in a frightful hurry -
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
an enormous boulder
a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology
tremendous sweeping plains
enormous expenses
a plane took off with a tremendous noise
How To Use tremendous In A Sentence
- But on the whole, the circulator is a tremendous asset and a great deal for city residents as it is funded mostly by the 2008 increase in the parking tax. Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs
- His stature as an art critic was tremendous.
- The president got a tremendous welcome at the airport.
- Likewise, if you told an ethologist that you found a new species of primate that is closely related to chimps, she would instantly know a tremendous amount about this animal and what it might be able to do. Bunny and a Book
- Not only was his analysis absolutely on target, he was tremendously self-assured, well spoken and telegenic.
- A more specific look is then taken at the Ottoman 'sanjaks' or district provinces, with the Jerusalem sanjak "as a separate entity from the other regions of Syria [being] of tremendous importance for the emergence of Palestine about fifty years later. The Israel/Palestine Question - Book Reveviw
- High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities. Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height
- The reward is tremendous weight and presence; the downside emotional crudity.
- The anniversary report is acknowledged as a tremendous achievement.
- Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.
