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The word "awesome" originated as a word to describe how flabergasted some one was to an event/situation/happening. It is the conjugation of the word "awe" (an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like) and "some" (of a certain unspecified number, amount, degree), to show how much awe the person saying the word had for what was happening. It was the same for the word awful until it got the bad denotation that it means something bad; when in reality it means the same as awesome.

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