stupendous

[stoo-pen-duhs, styoo-]

adjective

1. causing amazement; astounding; marvelous.

   stupendous news.

   Synonyms: extraordinary

2. amazingly large or great; immense.

   a stupendous mass of information.

   Synonyms: prodigious, gigantic, vast, colossal

stupendous

/ stjuːˈpɛndəs /

adjective

1. astounding, wonderful, huge, etc

Other Word Forms

• stupendousness noun
• stupendously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of stupendous¹

1965–70; < Latin stupendus, gerund of stupēre to be stunned; -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of stupendous¹

C17: from Latin stupēre to be amazed

Example Sentences

The stupendous floods of 1938 — floods so profound that they marooned movie stars on their San Fernando Valley ranches and delayed the Oscars by three days — sent whole prospecting families hustling back down the mountains.

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Speaking of New York, the best plays I saw on Broadway were inseparable from their stupendous productions.

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For less than the stupendous cost of colonizing Mars, humanity could address the issues that Musk feels will make the Earth uninhabitable, such as global warming.

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The pecan salsa matcha with the grilled tilefish sounds stupendous!

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“Howard Stern is getting paid a stupendous, phenomenal, astronomical amount of money,” a securities analyst told the Los Angeles Times in 2007.

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