(colloquial, North America, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
(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" 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.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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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
“Awesome, girl. Because it yeah, because”
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Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
“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”
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“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.”
“Bard Jr. has a Fiat 500e work shuttle. It’s awesome.”
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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.
“My grandmother bought me the Creepshow comic book when my age was still in the single digits. She was AWESOME!!!”
“Why did I start an awesome anime right before I usually got to bed? The Beginning of the End is awesome.”
“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”
“bugs are awesome btw but I love them from 1000000 ft away pls”
“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.”
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