stupendous
adj/stuˈpɛndəs/US/stjuˈpɛndəs/UK
Etymology
First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus (“stunning, amazing”), from the verb stupeō (“(I) am stunned”). Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.
- borrowed from stupendus
Definitions
Astonishingly great or large
Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
- One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
- The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.
- Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.
Of stunning excellence or degree
Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
- The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.
The neighborhood
- synonymcolossal
- synonymenormous
- synonymhuge
- synonymmarvelous
- synonymprodigious
- synonymterrific
- synonymtremendous
- antonymstupid
- neighborstupid
- neighborstupor
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA