awesome > define

adjective

• Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
  • usage: "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
  • synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing

• (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
• (a.) Expressive of awe or terror.