What's the difference between awesome and massive?

Awesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
  • (a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
  • (2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
  • (5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
  • (6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
  • (7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
  • (8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
  • (9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
  • (10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
  • (11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
  • (12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
  • (13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
  • (14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
  • (15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
  • (16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
  • (17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
  • (18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
  • (19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
  • (20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.

Massive


Definition:

  • (a.) Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
  • (a.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (5) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (6) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
  • (7) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
  • (8) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (10) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (11) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (12) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
  • (13) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
  • (14) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
  • (15) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
  • (16) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
  • (17) One patient had massive fibrosis and severe glomerulonephropathy, an association that has also been previously noted.
  • (18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (19) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.