The other day, my colleague Erin Winzer and I had a brief discussion surrounding the idea of “levels” of awesomeness. Actually, it was more like I was firing the questions at her while she was trying to working (shhh…). I wondered about how would we rank levels of awesomeness? So to call upon the wordsmiths or those who just want to have a little chuckle here is how I setup the Scorecard of Awesomeness. What’s even more interesting is how we each define these rankings along with the personalization of each word.
Technically awesome by itself is defined as inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
Generally speaking, we make use of adjectives to describe the level of awesomeness:
i.e. quite awesome, pretty awesome, totally awesome, fantastically awesome, extremely awesome.
Instead of doing that, I thought why not remove the awesome and have a range of adjectives each convey that awesomeness by themselves.
If you want to refer to something a little more mathematical or in some sense — outrageous, I’d recommend reviewing something like this from the Uncyclopedia.
So to create this scorecard, I needed to round up a number of words:
fantastic / wonderful / tremendous / terrific / marvelous / brilliant / phenomenal / amazing / magnificent / superb / glorious / great / outstanding / spectacular / solid / cool / sweet / excellent
Based on how I use these words, this is my own 5 scale result (#1 being most awesome of course):
The Scorecard of Awesomeness (aka. The Awesome Scorecard?)
1. Brilliant
2. Solid
3. Amazing
4. Great
5. Cool
What’s funny is that I really don’t think in terms of terrific, or tremendous, or phenomenal. It’s also interesting that the words I chose also had 1 to 3 syllables. What does that say about me?
Hmm… simplistic? — Honestly, I don’t know. Ultimately awesome will fit somewhere in the middle.
So how would you organize your own scale of awesomeness? Perhaps you have words that I haven’t added?
Make your own!
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DissolvedGirl
My favourite words to describe “awesome” are “phenomenal” and “fabulous (which you didn’t even consider!). Lately, however, I’m finding it difficult to use even these - so I’ve decided to make up own. Is something awesomely tacky? “Tacktacular” is what you’re really wanting to say. Know someone who can’t help but be awesome? They’re probably “Awetastic”. You get the idea.
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Ehren
Thanks for chipping in DissolvedGirl! Yes … funny enough I did forget to add “fabulous” on to the list, although I have to note that the word seems a little over the top
Are you finding it difficult to use your current scorecard because things just aren’t worthy of them, or because you find the existing words boring? Nevertheless I think your initiative to create new words is “brilliant”!
Cheers