Awesome

a.	1.	Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
	2.	Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. - Sir W. Scott.

Adj.

1.

awesome - inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awing, amazing, awful

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