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单词 awesome
释义
awesome
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adj

An awesome something or someone is amazing, breathtaking, or overwhelming. Like traveling the globe in a hot air balloon or visiting the Taj Mahal. Or, if you're 7, hearing someone burp the alphabet.
Awesome popped on the scene around 1600, probably in a church. It first meant “profoundly reverential,” but morphed later into an adjective meaning “inspiring awe.” Flash forward to the 20th century, when awesome transformed once again — this time into an everyday word for "impressive." These days it's synonymous with "outstanding" and "totally cool."
BLOG EXCERPTS
How Awesome Is "Awesome"? Not Very.

Unless you're a resident of the Lego Movie's Bricksburg where "Everything is Awesome," you may have noticed that calling things awesome is not quite as awesome as it used to be.

In fact, says Tim Askew, Founder and CEO of Corporate Rain International and columnist for Inc. Magazine, in business, awesome has become so overused, it's

For a history of how awesome came to be so omnipresent, we turn to Robert Lane Greene, Europe business and finance correspondent for The Economist and author of You Are What You Speak. He explains how, early in the 20th century, awesome was called into service in the Bible, as a descriptor for God, replacing the King James translation's terrible when terrible's meaning had morphed from "fear-inspiring" to "bad" or even "poorly done."  Greene writes:

So if not because awesome is overused, then because it's a 1980s cliché, it's time to change our lives with a single word by striking it from our vocabularies.

But before we do, we should be careful about what we say instead. In a follow-up to his anti-awesome post, Askew came out against amazing, fabulous, totally, incredible, unbelievable, and cool. As with awesome

The point, Askew reminds us, of dropping these words from our vocabularies is not to try to make ourselves willfully obtuse and difficult to understand, but to find ways to be specific in our language and say what we genuinely mean.

Since we're now not going to say that Askew's point is not just awesome, but fabulously amazing and unbelievably cool, we'll leave it at Hear, hear!

WORD FAMILY
awesome: awesomely+/awe: awed, aweless, awes, awesome, awing, awless, overawe/awed: awedest, awedly, unawed/aweless: awelessly/overawe: overawed, overawes, overawing
USAGE EXAMPLES
It is the most awesome workout ever because it hits all the body parts.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
“I think he’s an awesome coach,” Atlanta center Alex Mack said.
Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017)
“It’s awesome,” Ron Durbin said of celebrating Christmas as a family in Joplin, rather than nearly 300 miles away.
Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016)
adj inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
the awesome complexity of the universe
Syn
amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing
impressive
making a strong or vivid impression
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