awesome
意味
- 畏敬の念を起こさせる;恐ろしい
- 畏敬の念に満ちた;うやうやしい
例文
Awesome! The cherry trees are blooming already.
すごい！もう桜が咲いてるよ。
This application is awesome.
このアプリ、すごいよ。
That's an awesome result.
その効果は絶大だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From awe + -some; compare earlier awful and Middle English eiful (“inducing fright or terror, terrible”), from Old English eġeful (“fearful; inspiring awe”). The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common colloquial 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.