awesome sauce

So incredibly cool

Awesome sauce is slang expressing enthusiastic approval, functioning as an exclamation or adjective.

It intensifies awesome with playful exaggeration: You got the job? Awesome sauce!

The term emerged from internet culture in the early 2000s and retains a slightly ironic, lighthearted tone.

Sometimes spelled as one word.

slang

cool

Calm or fashionable

  • radExposure measurement unit
  • epicImpressively grand in scope
  • sickUnwell or impressively cool

dope · lit · fire · stellar · wicked · gnarly · tubular · righteous · bodacious · tight

approval

thumbs-up

Gesture indicating approval

kudos · nod · backing · endorsement · validation · acclaim · applause · cheers · recognition · salute

delight

joy

Intense positive emotion

  • elationIntense triumphant joy
  • gleeExuberant, often impish delight
  • blissPerfect, serene felicity

euphoria · exhilaration · jubilation · rapture · ecstasy · thrill · happiness · pleasure · gratification · satisfaction

enthusiasm

stoked

Extremely enthusiastic, slang

  • pumpedExcitedly eager, energized
  • hypedExcessively promoted
  • ampedSlang for thrilled

psyched · jazzed · thrilled · excited · fired-up · geeked · buzzed · revved · energized · exuberant

Categories
Opposites
quality/excellence

awesome sauceweak sauce

Slang for disappointing quality

fail · epic fail · garbage · trash · total disaster

emotional response

awesome saucebummer

Disappointing experience

ugh · yikes · hard pass · no bueno · gross

Family

awesome, sauce, awes, awfully, awfulness, sauces, sauced, saucing, saucy

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G