awesomeとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːsəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.əm/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.əm/

形容詞

awesome (comparative more awesome または awesomer, superlative most awesome または awesomest)

1. (dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]

   The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.

   The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.

2. (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

   That was awesome!

   Awesome, dude!

使用する際の注意点

The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common slang expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.

The comparative and superlative forms awesomer and awesomest are generally regarded as nonstandard.

同意語

• (causing awe または terror): see also Thesaurus:awesome or Thesaurus:wonderful
• (excellent): excellent, super, phenomenal, fantastic, terrific; wicked, bang-up, cool, sweet (スラング または くだけた用法); chur, cher (New Zealand); see also Thesaurus:excellent

反意語

• aweless

派生語

• awesome sauce (インターネット・スラング)
• awesomely
• awesomeness
• awesomenessness (nonce word, まれに, 一般的ではない用法)
• awesometastic

関連する語

• awe-inspiring
• awful

名詞

awesome (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang) The quality, state, or essence of being awesome or cool; awesomeness.
   • 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619, page 6:

     Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.

   • 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9780312643744, page 189:

     Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.

   • 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury (2010), ISBN 9781599903422, page 150:

     “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”

同意語

• awesome sauce (インターネット・スラング)

反意語

• fail (スラング), shit (スラング, 卑語), weaksauce (スラング)

Further reading

• awesome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.