tremendous

[trih-men-duhs] / trɪˈmɛn dəs /

ADJECTIVE

huge, overwhelming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amazing astounding awesome colossal dreadful enormous excellent exceptional extraordinary fabulous fantastic formidable great immense incredible marvelous massive monumental prodigious terrible terrific vast wonderful

WEAK

appalling awful cracking deafening fearful frightful gargantuan gigantic great big humongous jumbo large mammoth mondo monstrous stupendous super titanic towering whale whopper whopping

Antonyms

STRONGEST

believable common commonplace conventional customary expected familiar inferior insignificant little miniature minute normal ordinary plain pleasant poor powerless small teeny tiny trivial unamazing unimportant unnoteworthy usual weak wonderful

WEAK

underwhelming

Example Sentences

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The RSC's co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey called the visit from the King "a tremendous honour".

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“He brings us tremendous value with his ability to recruit elite players nationally, but especially the impact he can have for us recruiting the great state of Louisiana.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“We have a very substantial standard on AI, it’s causing — it’s causing tremendous good, and it’s also bringing in a lot of jobs, tremendous numbers of jobs,” he added.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

“We are convinced that the flexibility and resiliency of our off-price business model will continue to be a tremendous advantage,” said Chief Executive Ernie Herrman.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Wolf gave a tremendous heave and regained the trail.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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