TREMENDOUS

• (adj.) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree

  "an enormous boulder", "enormous expenses", "tremendous sweeping plains", "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology", "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"

  synonyms : enormous

• (adj.) extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers

  "a fantastic trip to the Orient", "the film was fantastic!", "a howling success", "a marvelous collection of rare books", "had a rattling conversation about politics", "a tremendous achievement"

  synonyms : fantastic , grand , howling , marvellous , marvelous , rattling , terrific , wonderful , wondrous

• (adj.) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

  "in a frightful hurry", "spent a frightful amount of money"

  synonyms : awful , frightful , terrible

  He spent an awful lot on the diamond engagement ring. -added by geeta_inlas

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