awesome

1. 1.

   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”

   “Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent”

   Synonymsamazingawe-inspiringawfulawing

   Similarimpressive

Other forms of awesome

comparative

awesomer·

superlative

awesomest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about awesome

What does awesome mean?

awesome means "inspiring awe or admiration or wonder".

How many syllables are in awesome?

awesome has 2 syllables: awe-some. The stress falls on "awe". In IPA it is /ˈɑsəm/.

What is another word for awesome?

Close synonyms include amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is awesome a common word?

awesome is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.