If we all agreed to stop saying "awesome", what word could we all agree to use as a replacement?

Cool beans~. I had a woman say this to me on the phone today. So weird.

Far Out

Ballin

Radical!
Bodacious!
Ungodly!
Ur’mfgh Ross A’‘wenmisch!

Fabulous
Amazin’
Epic
Astonishing

I use awesome alot too, need to bank that word aside a bit!

@chyna I have said that before

Bitchin

Badassery.

Oh my god, I am guilty of using “awesome” in place of other words because I can never think of the appropriate word to use and I hate it! I like “bitchin’” HAHAHAHAHAH! Thank you @city_data_forum

My vote is for KRYPTONIC. A friend once used that word (he’s older than me, maybe 30) and was like “you don’t remember when everybody used kryptonic to describe something that was cool?!” We were all like….No! Hahahahahhahahahahahhah! But I think it’s so funny.

Rad.

Sweeeet . . . .

groovy

I use awesome and I have noticed ‘cool’ a lot too!

I will throw in – fantabulous, splendid, splendiferous, magnificent, brilliant and glorious.

What a totally awesome question!

Rocking
Sick (though this one I really always thought was a stretch)
Exceptional

I don’t know guys. I just like awesome. I am really not sure why one word could be so offensive. Using anything else seems inconceivable. ;)

gailcalled

eg.: “The rims on that iroc-z are fucking gailcalled!”

@cprevite You are brilliant! What a gailcalled response! +10!

Fantastic!

But, the truth is that gets old fast too. They all do.

Speaking of @gailcalled, see this question of July 13, 2008. (64 answers.)

http://www.fluther.com/17863/what-are-some-synonyms-for-awesome/

And see also this question asked by @Magnus on Mar. 24, 2009 (79 answers.)

http://www.fluther.com/38995/am-i-the-only-one-that-cringes-when-someone-says-awesome/

Somewhere in here we decided that the ur-synonym was to be uberbatman.

Might we include some similar original substitutes for the other overused-to-the-point-of-meaningless word-like word, lol?

“Uberbatman”
“Gailcalled”

^ NOW we are getting a nice selection of replacements!

german

“Solid.”
“Clutch.”
“Key.”
I, however, am not willing to change.

I worked with a woman who used to say, “that is the bomb,” when something was amazing. When she said it it was hysterical, everyone knew what she meant. Now, in post 9/11 America who knows how that will go over? I use it once in a blue moon at home, I still like it.

Remember the original definition?

From the dim past…“leaving the viewer or listener filled with awe.”

”...extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear:”

Stupendous.

The max. Fluther is just the max, yah know? Like, it’s really brilliant. ( “Like” – another overused word. )

Fetch! LOL – Mean Girls anyone?

Without awesome the world would in fact be….way less awesome thus never being replaced with a worthy opponent and creating way less cool shit in this world. It could…Be the demise of the human race. so not awesome.

breathtaking,
awe-inspiring,
magnificent,
wonderful,
amazing,
stunning,
staggering,
imposing,
stirring,
impressive;
formidable,
fearsome,
dreaded;

Informal:

mind-boggling,
mind-blowing,
jaw-dropping,
excellent,
marvelous;

Literary:

wondrous;

Lovely
Darling
Fabulous
Divine
Dynamite
Peachykeen
Magnificient

How about freakinawesome or awefreakingsome?

@gailcalled I don’t understand your dislike for the word awesome being used as slang. In respects to the actual definition, the slang highly relates to it. Something being inspiring, amazing, filling someone with awe. Even if it’s some minor thing, it still respects the elements that construct the actual word. Say I read a book that left an impact on me, why can it not be awesome? Can I only say that word if God appears before me or something?
Granted, I’ve never heard anyone use the slang for something that really set fear or confusion into them, so I’ll suggest gnarly and tubular…although those words always remind me of sewers and haunted forests.

What does a chicken with a speech impediment say? “Fuck, fuck, fuck” all the day long. Makes finding a sub for Awesome pretty easy.

I’ve tried. I can not break myself of the awesome habit.

Neato! That’s Superfuckin’califragilisticexpialidocious.

@Symbeline: I object only to the overuse; any word, when used too often, too thoughtlessly and too indiscriminately, means too many things and becomes banal and boring.

BANAL:

trite, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid, commonplace, ordinary, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, timeworn, tired, threadbare, hoary, hack, unimaginative, humdrum, ho-hum, unoriginal, uninteresting, dull, trivial;
informal… old hat, corny, cornball, played out;

dated… dime-store;

rare.. truistic, bromidic.

Awesome-sauce is my current favorite. It’s so awesome. I live in California, where everything is awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

Super said with a British accent!

I tend to say “Cool as a Moose”

I didn’t know corny or corndog meant banal. I thought it was more along the lines of something being cheesy, sappy…granted, those words are pretty much just slangs themselves. Hmm, cheese. Gotta love platitudinous though. :D

It is “cornball” and not “corn dog.” I have no idea what that means.

I do enjoy the phrase “Schwing!”, on a side note..

@Joker94 Ha Ha I like that one too. I was driving on the freeway last week and lo and behold I see one of those heavy equipment trucks that they use to pour cement when making buildings and the name of the company is called Schwing!

See one here

@Kardamom That’s infinitely cooler than a truck just reading “Awesome”. Lol