stupendous
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/stuˈpɛndəs/
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/stuˈpɛndəs/ · /stjuˈpɛndəs/
Definition of stupendous
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adj
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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.”
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adj
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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.”
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Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
“The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.”
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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 Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.
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