Synonyms for awesome
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Amazing — excellent, exciting, remarkable
amazing, wonderful, great, gurt UK, incredible, impressive, awe-inspiring, terrific, super, excellent, unbelievable, bad-ass, phenomenal, marvelous US, marvellous UK, stunning, splendid, stupendous, astounding, wondrous, massive informal, bang-up informal, heavenly, sublime
Definitions
- adj. 1
Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
Related words
- Word family
- awesomazing awe-inspiring
- Phrases
- awesome sauce
From weakest to strongest
From the opposite of awesome, on the left, to its strongest synonyms, on the right.
Example sentences
- amazing How amazing that your mother speaks six languages!
- wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
- incredible It's incredible how long Mary can hold her breath!
- impressive Would you like to see something really impressive?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| awesome | rising | |
| amazing | rising | |
| wonderful | rising | |
| incredible | rising | |
| impressive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, super2
- 7 letters
- amazing3, massive2, sublime2
- 8 letters
- stunning2, terrific3, splendid2, heavenly3, wondrous2
- 9 letters
- wonderful3, excellent3, marvelous3
- 10 letters
- incredible4, impressive3, phenomenal4, astounding3, marvellous3, stupendous3
- 12 letters
- unbelievable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (super2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- formidable
- Italiano
- formidabile
- Español
- formidable