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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Accepting the best game award, studio chief Guillaume Broche thanked everyone who had worked on Expedition 33, describing it as a "tremendous team effort."

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

A potential failure of a highly-levered trading firm could have tremendous impact on bank balance sheets, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

My father had a tremendous influence in terms of my career choice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Although the technology remains in its infancy, there has been tremendous technical progress over the past year alone.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Just as it appeared certain that Leeman’s warning had been too late, there was a tremendous shriek and the second train came to a halt.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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