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say it: AH-suhm
awesome is an adjective meaning "inspiring awe or admiration or wonder". It is pronounced /ˈɑsəm/ — AH-suhm. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for awesome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.