词汇 | awesome |
释义 | awesome adjective uk /ˈɔː.səm/ us /ˈɑː.səm/ C2 causing feelings of great admiration, respect, or fear: 令人敬畏的;令人惊叹的;令人惊惧的 An awesome challenge/task lies ahead of them.摆在他们面前的是一项令人望而生畏的巨大挑战/艰巨任务。 awesome scenery令人赞叹的景致 A2informal extremely good: 绝妙的,令人惊叹的,极好的 You look totally awesome in that dress.你穿那件礼服真是漂亮极了。 extremely pleasant, enjoyable, or likable excellentThe food was excellent, thank you. wonderfulHave a wonderful trip! terrificThat's such terrific news, congratulations! fabulousI love her dress, it's fabulous. greatThe film was great. Admirable and admired admirable admirably awe-inspiring awe-inspiringly awesomely estimably exemplarily exemplary favourable glorious laudable laudably meritorious meritoriously noted the toast of somethingidiom toast vaunted venerable venerably You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Describing things that cause fear Extremely good Related wordawesomeness awesome | American Dictionaryawesome adjective us/ˈɔ·səm/ causing feelings of great admiration, respect, or fear: an awesome achievement slang Your new haircut is awesome (= extremely good). Examples of awesomeawesome And we documented the public fears - or hopes - that geneticists will soon acquire the awesome power to determine the human future. These are, of course, promissory developments, only dimly foreshadowed by present-day neurobiology, in spite of its relentless and awesome progress. His mastery of the secondary scholarship is awesome : his bibliography extends to fifty pages. Dangerous as they are now, awesome volcanic events in the past have contributed to extinctions, to changes in the continental freeboard and much more. We come to learn that the here-and-now is a fragment in an awesome sweep of life before our birth and after our death. Each night an awesome wonder can be seen there, fire in the water. A recognition of the awesome power of nature, and the limits of the western landscape, infused his agenda. Legendary to describe a football player is much like fabulous, especially if he is awesome. This indicates the awesome differential between the extremes in both practice and academia of those that have and those that have not. The symbolic and geometrical elements are simple but indissolubly intertwined into a complex and awesome whole. Language inflation being what it is, those who use "awesome" in the less-thanultimate sense are forced to seek modifiers for this ultimate superlative. Designing a major exhibition demands the flair of expert visualizers, and most displays from the modern era are awesome. Given the awesome task faced by the editors, it would be petty to criticise their topic selection process. It takes up an awesome amount of time if one lets it. Dons, their standing not yet reduced by the depredations of novelists, were awesome, even legendary figures. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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