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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing or able to cause fear: appalling, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, redoubtable, scary, terrible. See FEAR. 2. Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, vast. Informal : walloping. Slang : whopping. See BIG. 3. Informal. Particularly excellent: divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, marvelous, sensational, splendid, superb, terrific, wonderful. Informal : dandy, dreamy, great, ripping, super, swell. Slang : cool, groovy, hot, keen1, neat, nifty. Idioms: out of this world. See GOOD.
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