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tremendous English

Meaning tremendous meaning

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tremendous

If something is tremendous, it is very good or very big. We've put a tremendous amount of effort into solving this case. This is a tremendous, tremendous opportunity, and we should not let it get away. The Soviet Union was under tremendous pressure during World War II. A good leader can have a tremendous impact on a company. The college has undergone tremendous growth in the last few years. These changes present a tremendous opportunity for business looking to expand in Africa. I have tremendous respect for what they've done. People do not see this as a tremendous success. She has tremendous energy for an 85-year-old.

tremendous

(= enormous) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree an enormous boulder enormous expenses tremendous sweeping plains a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology — Walter Lippman a plane took off with a tremendous noise (= fantastic, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling) extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers a fantastic trip to the Orient the film was fantastic! a howling success a marvelous collection of rare books had a rattling conversation about politics a tremendous achievement (= frightful) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact in a frightful hurry spent a frightful amount of money

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Simple sentences

The merchant accumulated tremendous fortune during the postwar era.
Meteorologists are people who know a tremendous amount about geophysics, thermodynamics and climatology, and almost nothing about tomorrow's weather.
Tom's got a tremendous amount of work to do.
Even though Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet due to the tremendous greenhouse effect caused by the gases in its atmosphere.
The pressure was tremendous.
His appetite was tremendous: he soon cleared all the dishes, and ate enough to satisfy a dozen men.
Tom is a tremendous competitor.
The rocket travels at a tremendous speed.
He received a tremendous punch on the jaw from his opponent.
Tom is taking a tremendous chance.
Tom felt tremendous guilt.
Tom has a tremendous vocabulary.

Movie subtitles

This is really the most tremendous exercise.
A tremendous, mysterious process was taking place in countless hearts.
Tremendous, eh?
Now, Sir William here would put tremendous energy into anything to make even a few pounds.
A tremendous success.
I wanted to do something tremendous, to achieve what men of science have dreamt of since the world began, to gain wealth and fame and honour, to write my name above the greatest scientists of all time.
The torrent, swollen by the melting glacier, plunges into a tremendous abyss in which the spray rose up like the smoke from a burning house.
Happy may have hit on something tremendous here.
It's a tremendous achievement.
You're tremendous.
That'd be a tremendous help.
His recuperative powers have proved tremendous.
And I can understand the tremendous temptation to think of your own skin first and the ship and your shipmates second.
I made the most tremendous effort and pretended it wasn't real at all.
Don't listen to him. You've made tremendous progress.
Tremendous.
I got big problems to figure out. tremendous ones.
Somewhere in London at this very moment something tremendous is happening.
I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude.
Today she's a tremendous force in the battle to preserve and extend democracy.
Doing a tremendous business.
A tremendous affair.
Yes, I have a tremendous admiration for her.
Well, Larry, we're running up a tremendous bill.
Think of their heartbreaks, struggling against tremendous odds with the whole world laughing at them.
That you're entitled to undertake tremendous responsibilities.
Well, why not? I think it's a tremendous contrast.
As he waves to the crowd, you can hear the tremendous cheer!
I was at a tremendous height and you two behind metal at the bank vault, the X-ray room.
The men in that particular fleet also realize that we have a tremendous economic strength here, an economic strength that enables us to be protected against the boss, if such need arises.
Although I have tremendous personal magnetism I also have strength of character.
And tremendous imagination.
Carl, honey, you was just plain tremendous.
Baldie and Luis had thought of a tremendous ending.

News and current affairs

The free movement of goods, labor, and capital between the two parts could have given a tremendous economic boost to Palestinian GDP.
One reason is the tremendous increase in anti-Americanism since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
We have made tremendous strides in reaching more children with more vaccines, which is why more children are surviving than ever before.
Housing prices have shown tremendous upward momentum in the face of previous warnings that the party is over.
Such creative approaches could spur a tremendous amount of research and development on behalf of the world's poor, and do much more good than yet another IMF-World Bank mission.
But for China's peasants, WTO membership appears to pose a direct and immediate threat to the tremendous gains made since Deng Xiaoping's agricultural reforms in the late 1970s.
This, in turn, should help us to reach more realistic and sound global responses to this tremendous challenge.
Research has shown that such teams outperform others, which means that this approach can lead to a tremendous competitive advantage.
The tremendous economic success of countries like China, where hundreds of millions of people have escaped abject poverty in a single generation, has reinforced support for state-led systems.
More and more research suggests that the poor are suffering in large part because of tremendous biological, ecological, and geographical obstacles not faced in the rich countries.
But there is another, equally strong (albeit often overlooked) rationale: the tremendous potential for an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian economic zone that would drive the entire region's growth and development.
Moreover, the dramatic democratization of mores in the last 20 years has resulted in a tremendous increase in ordinary human curiosity about people in the limelight: who our leaders are, how they live, and what they really believe.
The collapse of Ukraine would be a tremendous loss for NATO and indirectly for the EU and the US.
But the damage inflicted by an attack might be tremendous, because ports are thought to be one of the few ways terrorists might smuggle nuclear weapons into the US.
Ukraine is a long way from achieving this, but signing an Association Agreement would pave the way toward entry talks, while also creating tremendous economic opportunities.
Asian states have a tremendous opportunity to rise to this challenge.
Asia's new clout holds tremendous promise.
More fundamentally, the US role at the center of the global financial system gives tremendous power to US courts, regulators, and politicians over global investment throughout the world.
Similarly, a recent Chinese bestseller, A Survey of Chinese Peasants, reveals the tremendous human costs of China's modernization drive.
Liberians have made tremendous sacrifices.
Now Europe is making Israelis feel not only that it is indifferent to their existential predicament, but that, rather than fighting for life against tremendous odds, Israel is committing European-style crimes.
One reason is the tremendous increase in anti-Americanism since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This is largely due to a widespread perception of American arrogance.
Upgrading the service sector is low-hanging fruit for Asia, because tremendous investments are not required.
As long as Asia holds its foreign reserves in dollars China's desire to maintain a stable value for the reminbi will continue to offer tremendous advantages for trade and economic development.

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