Definitions

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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Nevertheless Columbia researcher Wagner believes geothermal has tremendous potential and is not just hype.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

“There is a tremendous benefit for students to remain in active repayment” and making timely payments, Kent said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

“And, as you know, we’re building tremendous numbers of plants, but AI we’re building the biggest, the biggest in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

“Every farmer around the world is under tremendous pressure because of a lack of labor,” Monarch Chief Executive Praveen Penmetsa told Forbes in 2023, projecting hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

It looked like a tremendous silver ball lying there in the grass, silent, mysterious, and wonderful.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

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