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awesome

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. 2 (context colloquial English) excellent, exciting, remarkable. n. (context Internet slang English) The quality, state, or essence of being awesome#Adjective or cool; awesomeness.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. Its development began as a fork of dwm . It aims to be extremely small and fast, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "profoundly reverential," from awe (n.) + -some (1). Meaning "inspiring awe" is from 1670s; weakened colloquial sense of "impressive, very good" is recorded by 1961 and was in vogue from after c.1980. Related: Awesomely ; awesomeness .

Usage examples of awesome.

The very sight of the awesome Forest aborigines, with their fanged muzzles agape and their taloned hands hovering near their weapons, was enough to convert the dance-bone cheaters to instant integrity.

He knew he could trust Ament to wield this most awesome of weapons wisely.

The awesome, aperiodic double helixwith its seductive suggestion of encoded information assembling an entire organismspread before him at twenty-one, wider than the American Wilderness.

The peninsulas sprouted grasping tendrils, thigh-thick at the trunk but narrowing to the dimensions of plant fronds, and then narrowing further, bifurcating into lacy, fernlike hazes of awesome complexity.

Looking at the awesome spectacle of Wulfgar, Bungo honestly wondered if he could have won this match even in his healthier youth.

One can buy an awesome amount of caffe for a quarter of a million silver sovereigns.

Every man who claimed to have found a way into those mountains had been proved a charlatan, and it was widely accepted that the gods intended for us to contemplate such awesome works as the Carag Huim from a respectful distance.

Then through the palace of the Count de Coude rang the awesome challenge of the bull ape that has made a kill.

And as for the fearfulness of it and its fierce and awesome beauty, who can describe it?

Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light.

Only Fimbria, in her heyday, had ever governed a tract of land so large, and the men who had had this awesome responsibility thrust so precipitately upon their shoulders were clerics, priests with no experience in governance.

But now the sun had set, and in the flickering golden light of torches the court, lined on three sides by tiers of pillared galleries, seemed awesome, hieratic, redolent of ancientness and power.

Then came the cosmic catastrophe which put man at the mercy of the giant spiders, icily intelligent conquerors armed with awesome mind powers.

As a further inducement, Thap suggested that the jawbone of mature swampfish, which turned an awesome pink color was perfect for making jewelry.

To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype--a battle Han knows they may be unable to win .