awesome
Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
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Born ~1970 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
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Happy Tuesday my friend! Have an awesome day!
whats awesome about chrome just being fucking terrible is websites i have to use do not work on firefox. so i have to keep chrome around. which is so cool
Why did I start an awesome anime right before I usually got to bed? The Beginning of the End is awesome.
bugs are awesome btw but I love them from 1000000 ft away pls
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Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
“Oh Joy LEGO Batman is Back to Save the World from Certain Doom with His Awesome Bat-Dancing Skills and His Totally Not Dysfunctional Bat-Family jackal.today/2026/05/05/o... Jackal.Today satirical news site”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Happy Tuesday my friend! Have an awesome day!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“whats awesome about chrome just being fucking terrible is websites i have to use do not work on firefox. so i have to keep chrome around. which is so cool”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The automated future should be awesome but the oligarchs know they lose their position when we all become the collective beneficiaries of the economic output of the machines.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Bard Jr. has a Fiat 500e work shuttle. It’s awesome.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(colloquial, North America, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
"awesome" means: Excellent, exciting, remarkable.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"awesome" means: Excellent, exciting, remarkable.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“Awesome, girl. Because it yeah, because”
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(countable, informal) A person who is awesome.
Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
“Why did I start an awesome anime right before I usually got to bed? The Beginning of the End is awesome.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“bugs are awesome btw but I love them from 1000000 ft away pls”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Today we celebrate Tendi and T’lyn Tuesday. When I watched lower decks for the first time I fell in love with Tendi but from the minute I saw that rebellious Vulcan T’lyn, I knew this show gonna be awesome.But Mr McMahan you committed a sin by giving us T’lyn sooo late.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“My grandmother bought me the Creepshow comic book when my age was still in the single digits. She was AWESOME!!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Awesome work! Although, I think it'd be cool to see the saucer enemies as well. Maybe as a future update, you could implement them, or even create your own unique enemy types. Also, what font did you use? #SmallGameStudio”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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