TREMENDOUS
ADJECTIVES
► AWFUL tremendous, first-rate, excellent; used to emphasize something enjoyable or positive → 1843 colloq.
► BOFFO tremendous, successful → 1940s sl.
► COOL AS A MOUSE AND TWICE AS HAIRY tremendous → 1964 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► IMMANE tremendous, huge, vast, enormous → 1615 arch.
► MENJUS tremendous → 1890 Eng. dial.
► SAIR tremendous, great; said of something pleasant → 1877 Sc.
► TREMENDIOUS tremendous → 1803 Amer. dial.
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