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stupendous

[ stoo-pen-duhs, styoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

causing amazement; astounding; marvelous:
stupendous news.
Synonyms: extraordinary
amazingly large or great; immense:
a stupendous mass of information.
Synonyms: prodigious, gigantic, vast, colossal

stupendous

/ stjuːˈpɛndəs /

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

C17: from Latin stupēre to be amazed

The film is stupendous art, but it owes much to a priceless piece of document.

On that stupendous pile, he paid a tax rate which struck people as absurdly low.

Antony Polonsky's The Jews in Poland and Russia is a stupendous - almost crushing - work of scholarship.

It was to protect this stupendous asset that the South went to war.

The question remains: can you call yourself a success if results are respectable rather than stupendous.

Longcluse looked animated—smiling; but a stupendous load lay on his heart.

Had this stupendous miracle no effect upon the Jewish priests who had crucified Christ as an impostor?

It is protected by a stupendous granite breakwater, costing many millions and affording a delightful promenade on a fine day.

The creation of this world is the most stupendous of all miracles; yet all men admit that this miracle occurred.

The progress of philosophy from Thales to Plato is the most stupendous triumph of the human intellect.

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