Meaning & use

tremendous

adjective·Everyday

Very great in size, amount, or degree; extremely impressive.

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The charity raised a tremendous amount of money during last year's fundraiser.

She felt tremendous relief when the test results finally came back normal.

A note on using this word

Tremendous can describe something impressively large or, informally, simply excellent, as in 'a tremendous performance.'

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