amazing

[uh-mey-zing]

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adjective

causing great surprise or sudden wonder.

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Origin of amazing

First recorded in 1520–30; amaze + -ing²

Related formsa·maz·ing·ly, adverb

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We hit it off amazingly well, and started a real friendship.
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“They could be, amazingly enough, the girl next door,” Brenner said of victims of such killings.
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He was one of a handful of amazingly talented people whose efforts helped define what it is that we today, call stand-up comedy.
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The four or five thrillers a year that de Villiers churned out from 1966 until his death in 2013 were amazingly trashy.
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For instance, a wonderful, amazingly accomplished bartender in Kansas City had a baby last year, and I followed her journey.
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Far away on the deck of the Chihuahua the quick-fire racket of Jones's auxiliary was amazingly audible.
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All was so familiar, and yet so amazingly unfamiliar, so silent!
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He was a bright little fellow, and your father took to him amazingly.
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Amazingly, he could speak French, David's language, though with a strange and heavy accent.
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Heaven knows what evil genius has inspired their costume; it is amazingly inelegant compared with those of former generations.
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British Dictionary definitions for amazingly

amazing

adjective

causing wonder or astonishmentamazing feats

Derived Formsamazingly, adverb

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Word Origin and History for amazingly

amazing

adj.

early 15c., "stupefactive;" 1590s, "dreadful;" present participle adjective from amaze. Sense of "wonderful" is recorded from 1704. Related: Amazingly.

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