Stupendous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stupendous \Stu*pen"dous\, a. [L. stupendus astonishing, p.
     future pass. of stupere to be astonished at. Cf. {Stupid}.]
     Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in
     magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous
     sum." --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           All are but parts of one stupendous whole. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Stu*pen"dous*ly}, adv. --
     {Stu*pen"dous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupendous
       adj : so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
             "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a
             colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous
             field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: {colossal},
             {prodigious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupendous":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, astonishing, astounding,
     astronomic, astronomical, awesome, beguiling, bewildering,
     boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, elephantine,
     enigmatic, enormous, epic, exceptional, extensive, extraordinary,
     fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, galactic, giant, giantlike,
     gigantic, heroic, huge, immeasurable, immense, incomprehensible,
     inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, infinite,
     jumbo, king-size, large, legendary, mammoth, marvelous, massive,
     massy, mighty, miraculous, monster, monstrous, monumental, mortal,
     mountainous, mythical, noteworthy, outlandish, outsize, overgrown,
     passing strange, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, profound,
     puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, sizable, spacious,
     spectacular, staggering, strange, striking, stupefying, titanic,
     towering, tremendous, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique,
     unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, vast, voluminous,
     weighty, wonderful, wondrous