amazing
[uh-mey-zing]
- causing great surprise or sudden wonder.
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Origin of amazing
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Contemporary Examples
We hit it off amazingly well, and started a real friendship.
“They could be, amazingly enough, the girl next door,” Brenner said of victims of such killings.
He was one of a handful of amazingly talented people whose efforts helped define what it is that we today, call stand-up comedy.
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.
Historical Examples
"Be seated as one of us," and he amazingly proffered me his cigarette case.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
When the toad first emerges from the egg it is amazingly like the fish.
The Meaning of EvolutionSamuel Christian Schmucker
I squared my shoulders and as Hephzy would have said, "perked up" amazingly.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
The world had changed around for him amazingly in the past few days.
The Flockmaster of Poison CreekGeorge W. Ogden
Peter didn't care who knew or saw, because he really liked Beth amazingly.
The Vagrant DukeGeorge Gibbs
amazing
- causing wonder or astonishmentamazing feats
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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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