stupendous
Americanadjective
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causing amazement; astounding; marvelous.
stupendous news.
- Synonyms:
- extraordinary
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amazingly large or great; immense.
a stupendous mass of information.
- Synonyms:
- prodigious, gigantic, vast, colossal
adjective
Other Word Forms
- stupendously adverb
- stupendousness noun
Etymology
Origin of stupendous
1965–70; < Latin stupendus, gerund of stupēre to be stunned; -ous
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times
Speaking of New York, the best plays I saw on Broadway were inseparable from their stupendous productions.
From Los Angeles Times
The pecan salsa matcha with the grilled tilefish sounds stupendous!
From Salon
“Howard Stern is getting paid a stupendous, phenomenal, astronomical amount of money,” a securities analyst told the Los Angeles Times in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times
Her describing it a combination of pumpkin pie and gingerbread also made it sound stupendous.
From Salon
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