awesomeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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 Thesaurus:awesome or Thesaurus:wonderful
• (excellent): see Thesaurus:excellent

反意語

• aweless

派生語

• awesome sauce (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. (slang) Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
   • 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), →ISBN, 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, 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, page 150:

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

   pure awesome; made of awesome

同意語

• awesome sauce (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.