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  1. adjective Inspiring awe: an awesome thunderstorm.
  2. adjective Expressing awe: stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins.
  3. adjective Slang Remarkable; outstanding: "a totally awesome arcade game” (Los Angeles Times).

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  • Always awesome were the Warriors, two and a quarter meters tall, identical in thick body and stony countenance: adapts, their genes shaped not for civilian service but for battle. —  Starfarers
  • Amothus looked from the grim, exhausted face of the half-elf to the young knight, who was smiling bitterly as he methodically stabbed tiny holes in the lace tablecloth with his knife. —  Test of the Twins
  • Dimly, from one brief visit, he recalled the awesome Life-Tree, home of the Hylar. —  The Gates of Thorbardin
  • So awesome was the sight of the huge white rock that even now none dared either approach or touch it. —  Dragons of Winter Night
  • It was awesome -- awesome experience. —  CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2008
 

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  1. North. English and Scots; from awe + -some.
 

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/ˈɔsəm/
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by Eric Leebow
by Lee Davis-Thalbourne

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