Something spooky or scary can be mentioned as tremendous.
Tremendous is an adjective originating from the Latin tremendous that is used to describe different issues. The first meaning of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) refers to that which is terrifying, frightening or creepy .
For example: “A tremendous accident on the San Juan bridge caused the death of five people,” “Tremendous explosion in a chemical factory: two workers died and five were seriously injured,” “The truth is that I am going through a tremendous moment.” "I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
Different meanings of tremendous
In the etymology of the term tremendous there is a meaning that we do not usually notice: tremble . The Latin root mentioned in the first paragraph, tremendus , is nothing other than the gerundive (an impersonal verbal form) of the Latin verb that in our language is tremble, although it also derived other words related to fear . Therefore, when talking about "something tremendous" we should think of a situation worthy of causing tremors.
This meaning of the concept, as can be seen, implies a negative charge. Tremendous, however, can also be used to highlight valuable issues . Something tremendous, in this sense, can provoke admiration : “The Swedish striker scored a tremendous goal in last night's game,” “Tremendous achievement of national cinema! More than three million viewers saw Gómez's new film , “The young man made a tremendous effort to get to this place and deserves respect .”
What causes astonishment can be described as tremendous: “This news is tremendous: I don't know how the boss will react,” “The singer's tremendous revelation: he said he lived on the street throughout his adolescence,” “The president's resignation was something tremendous.” ” .
A success of great magnitude can be described as tremendous.
response to an emotion
Returning to the etymological origin of tremendous, it is important to note that tremors do not always arise in the face of a negative or frightening situation , but can also be a response to a very intense emotion . For this reason, it is easy to imagine that an exceptional play by a great soccer player and the story of a sad adolescence immersed in poverty cause tremors to the interlocutor, although the reasons are different in each case.
To put it more finely, when we say that something is scary, it can also be about something that we really like and that causes us admiration: "This singer has a vocal extension that is scary," "The photorealism that this console can achieve is scary."
Other uses of the notion of tremendous
In the field of pink journalism (also called journalism of the heart and pink chronicle , it is the one that focuses on the life of showbiz, that is, of famous people), the word tremendous is usually used with the aim of exaggerating the importance of news , and often appears in headlines that are more interesting than the article itself. You can talk about "tremendous nonsense", "tremendous insult" or "tremendous humiliation", for example, to attract the reader with the promise of delighting him with embarrassing anecdotes about the famous people he least esteems, whether they are artists, businessmen, athletes or politicians. .
When the notion is applied to a person, usually a child, it means that they are naughty or not very attached to the rules : “Pedrito is tremendous, I don't know what to do to get him to behave well” , “Tonight will you go out again? “You are tremendous, you never rest,” “When I was a boy I was tremendous, but over the years I became more obedient.”
a spanish rapper
This term is also the stage name of a Spanish rapper named Enrique López Guerrero , originally from Terrassa . His interest in this music, which for many reaches its maximum potential in English, since it arose in that language and does not adapt correctly to the harshness of Spanish, began in the 90s; So he used to attend concert halls of this genre, and soon met DJ Griffi and Juan Solo , two very significant people in his career.
In 2000 he released his first album, titled "Avoid" , and it didn't take long for him to get good reviews and achieve national fame.