(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.
Winsome
Definition:
(a.) Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
(a.) Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
(2) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler
(3) All of it – from a tangerine drop-waist silk dress, to a vintage Chloe-esque pleated design – was fresh and young, with a winsome early-60s nod that has been present in VVB since its inception.
(4) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler I is for Isolde J is for Jews K is for Kundry L is for Lohengrin M is for Meistersinger N is for Nietzsche O is for Ortrud
(5) Not that Nick was ever exactly one to be motivated by a sense of “drive” or ego – there is the story of the time Françoise Hardy, who, as a winsome breathy chanteuse must have obviously been drawn to Drake’s similar, superiority-wrought style, phoned Island Records, more or less ordering Drake over to France to write songs for her.
(6) For every cockle-warming group hug, there's Tambor, spewing bile and condescension; for every small child bursting winsomely into song, there he is again, a snout-nosed vision of pompous self-delusion.
(7) Partly produced by MacColl's guitarist father, Neill (who has made his own folk albums with Kathryn Williams), it is winsome, fragile and audacious, Steadman's trembling voice and the unadorned plucked strings a far cry from the frenzied rock of last year's debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose .
(8) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
(9) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler I is for Isolde J is for Jews K is for Kundry L is for Lohengrin M is for Meistersinger
(10) Photograph: Joan Marcus The understated adaptation of Robert James Waller’s overblown love story The Bridges of Madison County featured numerous sex scenes between Kelli O’Hara’s winsome farm wife and Steven Pasquale’s hunky photographer.
(11) Bowie then returned to the multimedia trail with an appearance in Julien Temple’s shambolic film Absolute Beginners (1986), from which he salvaged some personal kudos by supplying the winsome title song.
(12) It's an intense listen, but then if you're looking for delicate subtlety from the man who once penned a track called Inside Pikachu's Cunt then you're probably the kind of listener disappointed at the lack of winsome ballads on the new Cerebral Ballzy record.
(13) Winsome comment about husband's failings "He is not very good at picking up his clothes.
(14) Winsome comment about husband's failings "He's messy, he's noisy, he gets up at a terrible hour."
(15) Photograph: Warner Bros LEGO's first movie snaps into place by building on the reputations of newly-minted cinema icons Batman and Superman, both of whom make an appearance in the winsome trailer .
(16) Or allergic to winsome ditties sung-spoken to primitive ukulele accompaniment.
(17) "While many clubs maintain the rather lame tradition of reserving their No12 for their fans, I noticed that Oldham choose the No40 instead," notes Robert Winsome.
(18) After leaving the Foreign Office in search of new adventures, Stewart, who looks (deceptively) winsome and vulnerable with his tousled hair and wiry build, walked 6,000 miles across Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, mostly alone (his winter walk across Afghanistan was the subject of his first book).
(19) Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silver-screen idol who can't adjust to the new "talkies", while a former ingénue Peppy Miller (played by the winsome Bérénice Bejo) becomes a huge star.
(20) Winsome comment about husband's failings "If you see him dancing flamenco, you realise that it's not something he'd normally attempt ... " What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night The Macarena (it's Spanish, innit?)