- present participle of amaze.
amazing
American
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of amazing
Explanation
Use the adjective amazing to describe something that is so good, it surprises you, like the amazing beauty of the Rocky Mountains or the amazing feats of a truly great athlete. Amazing, like incredible, awesome, and fabulous, is used so often to describe things that are just really good, you sometimes forget that its real meaning is reserved for things that are especially remarkable. The base word in amazing is amaze, which means "to astound or perplex." So amazing should be reserved for things that do just that.
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“Brett and I love to be home. We’ve built an amazing life where our home is the centerpiece of our daily life. Neither one of us have wanderlust at this stage,” she wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Oh, they have the greatest oysters and amazing pasta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
“It’s amazing when the audience, whether it’s during a Q and A or during a interactive part of the show, gets a chance to express what these shows have meant to them,” Levy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“We made some great friends and have amazing memories,” he wrote in his Wednesday post, “and saw things we never would have seen otherwise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I suppose it would change things. In my head, he’s this amazing person. How could someone like that get fooled into liking Rachel?”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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