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say it: truh-MEN-duhs
tremendous is an adjective meaning "extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree". It carries 3 recorded senses.
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
“an enormous boulder”
“enormous expenses”
“tremendous sweeping plains”
“a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology”
“a plane took off with a tremendous noise”
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
“a fantastic trip to the Orient”
“the film was fantastic!”
“a howling success”
“a marvelous collection of rare books”
“had a rattling conversation about politics”
“a tremendous achievement”
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
“in a frightful hurry”
“spent a frightful amount of money”
colloquialism
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tremendous 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.