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# awesome

«awesome» in Mova's school dictionary: **very good, great or cool, as in «That film was awesome!»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (awesome, more awesome, most awesome)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Awesome means very good, great or cool, as in «That film was awesome!». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#m1)

2) Awesome means so big, powerful or amazing that it fills you with wonder and a little fear, as in «the awesome power of the ocean». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#m2)

3) (slang) «Awesome!» can be said on its own to mean «great!» or «OK, good». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday speech in the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK, children use «awesome» all the time to praise things. In stories and science writing, the older meaning, full of awe, is used for storms, mountains or space. In writing lessons teachers may ask pupils to choose a stronger, more exact word than «awesome». Phrases: «totally awesome», «awesome!», «that's awesome».

### examples

- That roller coaster was awesome! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x1)
- «I got the tickets.» «Awesome!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x2)
- Standing under the waterfall, we felt its awesome power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x3)
- My teacher is awesome at explaining fractions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x4)
- The view from the mountain top was awesome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x5)
- You did an awesome job on your project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x6)
- The awesome size of the blue whale left us speechless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/#x7)

### note

Spelled «awesome», with «e» after «aw». In formal writing, prefer «impressive» or «excellent». Related: awe (a feeling of wonder), awful (once meant full of awe, now means very bad). Comparison is usually «more awesome».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «awesome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awesome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.