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Adjective: tremendous  tri'mendus
  1. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
    "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
    - enormous, ginormous [Brit]
     
  2. Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as an intensifier
    "a tremendous achievement"
    - fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous [US], marvellous [Brit, Cdn], rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous
     
  3. Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
    - frightful, terrible, awful

See also: big, extraordinary, large, tremendously

Encyclopedia: Tremendous